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Theodore Roosevelt:
• Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, and was in reign from 1901 until 1909.
• The Monroe Doctrine was stated December 2, 1832 by the fifth American President, James Monroe. It declared that the free American continents are not to be accountable to future colonization by European powers. The US intended to remain neutral to existing European colonies in America but vigorously objecting the creation of new ones amidst the Hispanic American republics that recently obtained independence. It proclaimed that any further efforts of countries from Europe to colonize land in North or South America would be regarded as acts of aggression and as such requires American intervention.
• Roosevelt knew that the threat of force rather than force itself was generally tolerable to avert military conflict, he outlined this theory with an old African proverb, “speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.” His technique of foreign method was known as Big Stick Diplomacy.
Woodrow Wilson:
• Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, and was in term from March 4, 1913 until March 4, 1921.
• Eight of the fourteen points deal with specific territorial issues amid the combatant nations. Five of the other six dealt with general principles for a peaceful world. The fourteenth point suggested what was to develop into the League of Nations to assure the “political independence and territorial integrity of great and small states alike.”
• The League of Nations come out after the end of World War I. The League of Nation's task was straightforward - to make certain that war never broke out again. After the turmoil produced by the Versailles Treaty, many peered to the League to deliv...

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...knew about the break-in, and paid the defendants to keep quiet or lie during the trial. John Dean, a White House lawyer, told the committee that McCord was telling the truth and that Nixon had known of the attempt to cover up White House involvement. Soon, all sort of damaging things began to arise. Former Attorney, General John Mitchell and six top Nixon aides were accused by a federal grand jury for trying to block the investigation, they were eventually convicted. While Nixon carried on denying any involvement, it was acknowledged that he made secret tapes of conversations in his office. The tapes plainly showed Nixon had been part of the cover-up. On August 8, 1974 Nixon submitted a one sentence letter of resignation, and then went on TV and said, “ I have always tried to do what is best for the nation.” He was the first and, so far, only US president to resign.

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