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…showed last 75 words of 819 total…by threatening their security as a powerful nation and their dominance of the Western Hemisphere. The values that had driven American expansion since the West was won were still strong in the minds of the people, and the economy was crying out for control of new markets around the world. All These things contributed greatly to America doing the types of things that, only a little over a century before, it itself had fought against.