Join the Peoples' School for Marxist Leninist Studies as they start a series on the History of U.S. Imperialism. This is crucial history for American communists to thoroughly understand in order to be equipped to fight American imperialism today. They begin with the origins of U.S. Imperialism focusing on the period of the late 19th and early 20th century before the First World War.

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Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction

1:35 American Capitalist Expansion

4:50 Q&A 1

14:55 Beginnings of American Imperialism

21:40 Q&A 2

30:25 1898: Pacific Islands and Spanish-American War

32:20 Untold History of the United States, Video Excerpt I

37:30 Annexation of Hawaii and Acquisition of Samoa

39:00 Q&A 3

42:30 Untold History of the United States, Video Excerpt II

46:10 Panama Canal and the Banana Wars

48:10 Untold History of the United States, Video Excerpt III

51:10 American Imperialism in 1914

53:00 Q&A 4 and Conclusion