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=== The New Imperialism and the newly-industrializing countries ===

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Just as the U.S. emerged as one of the world's leading industrial, military and political powers after the [[Civil War]], so would [[German Empire|Germany]] following its own unification in [[1871]]. Both countries undertook ambitious naval expansion in the 1890s. And just as Germany reacted to depression with the adoption of tariff protection in [[1879]] and colonial expansion in [[1884]]-[[1885|85]], so would the U.S. following the landslide election ([[1896]]) of [[William McKinley]], already associated with the high [[McKinley Tariff]] of [[1890]].