OK, lets avoid all the hypocrisy and self-serving rhetoric and get down to the nitty-gritty of expansionism and land-grabbing in the early 1800's. The Mexicans had long occupied California and most of what was Texas. -The USA under President James Polk had decided it needed a Pacific coast and California was IT. When Mexico wouldn't back down the war ensued.
- Compare this in modern times to the Russians recent grab of Crimea and it's attempts at grabbing Ukraine. -Russia needs a Black Sea port and sees Oddessa as it. -Is this situation really any different?
After the U.S. annexed Texas, there was a dispute over territory that both Texas and Mexico claimed. Also, the U.S. wanted to buy what us not the Southwest and California from Mexico as part of the Manifest Destiny movement. Defeating Mexico gave the U.S. both territories.
The US annexed Texas, Mexico refused to negotiate the sale of Alta California and Nuevo Mexico and border conflicts over the Neuces Strip.
What did zimmermann propose that Mexico do if war between Germany and the us
Mexico City.
1846
Texas Territory
The Mexican American War.
In the year 1846.
US won the war.The war began on April 25,1846..
You mean before the Mexican-American War? That was the Nueces Strip.
No, that was the Mexican American War.
Was called the Mexican American War. It happened between the Texas War of Independence and the US Civil War.
The US had achieved Manifest Destiny.
Mexico