Hawaii is more than 3000 kilometers away from the United States. How did the United States win this enclave?

According to the land area published by all countries in the world, the United States has a land area of 9.37 million square kilometers, ranking fourth in the world, and neighboring Canada ranks second. However, although the United States is one level lower than Canada in territorial area, its military and economic strength far exceeds that of Canada.

According to the data, the United States consists of 50 states, many informal overseas territories and some illegal territories. At present, the nearest official territory to China is Hawaii.

Hawaii is a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean and an important military base of the United States in the Asia-Pacific strategic plan. Although the United States invaded Hawaii in the early 20th century, Hawaii did not officially become the legal territory of the United States until 1959. Before that, Hawaii has always been an independent kingdom. So how did Hawaii gradually become an American territory?

United States of America

Although both the United States and Canada are located in North America, the founders of these two countries are not North American aborigines, but a group of European immigrants, so the United States has a history of more than 200 years.

When the United States was first established, its territory was very small, only a part of the western United States. Later, most of the territory of the central and eastern United States was acquired through trade, and then a large area of land was robbed from Mexico through war, forming the present new Mexico. It is precisely because of the failure of the War of Resistance Against America that the overall development of Mexico was seriously curbed by the United States.

The United States, like Russia, is a country full of infinite desire for territory, but after World War II, the global territorial scope has been basically determined, and there is no large-scale military expansion except for some territorial armed conflicts in some parts of the world.

Therefore, even if the United States is full of territorial ambitions and its own strength is quite strong, it is still inconvenient to invade other countries in the world. Therefore, after the Second World War, the United States began to actually control the territory going to all parts of the world by stationing troops. Some regions or countries that have been stationed by the United States have gradually got rid of American control and moved towards independence, such as Japan and South Korea. Others were completely annexed by the United States and became part of the United States, such as Guam and Hawaii.

Hawaii

The total area of the Hawaiian Islands is not very large, but it is already a large island group above Oceania. According to the data released by the United States, Hawaii * * consists of 8 large islands and 124 small islands, with no people or a relatively small population. China people used to call Honolulu, the main island of Hawaii. For example, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of our country, spent some time in Honolulu, and his brother Sun Mei was the richest man in Honolulu.

Honolulu was always an island inhabited by primitive tribes before the beginning of the era of great navigation in Europe. The mode of production of local indigenous people is very backward, and the means of production are relatively simple, and the war between tribes has never stopped.

Due to their limited sailing skills, their activities are limited to the Hawaiian islands. As for when humans first appeared in Hawaii, there is no exact historical data. The earliest traces of human activities were about 2000 years ago. The earliest communication with Hawaiian aborigines was the British sailing team. After communication, the relationship between the British and the aborigines is also very good.

Under the impression of Britain, some local big tribes realized their cultural backwardness and their weakness. I am full of envy for Britain with relatively advanced culture and highly developed marine science and technology.

At that time, due to the need of development, Britain especially needed to build a sea transit station in the Pacific Ocean. It happens that Hawaii has a large land area and good living conditions, so Hawaii has become the first choice for Britain to establish a transit station.

Once or twice later, a huge local indigenous group gradually unified Hawaii with the help of Britain, and successfully established the Kingdom of Hawaii in the18th century. It took only a few decades to complete the magnificent transformation from primitive society to feudal kingdom. Although it was in a world-famous crazy age, Britain didn't deny it at that time? Kingdom of Hawaii? , but admitted it? Legal existence? .

Because Britain did not declare its colonization of Hawaii to the international community at that time, Russia, full of strong desire for territory, saw the importance of Hawaii's strategic position in the Pacific Ocean. So 1804, Russia sent warships to Hawaii island, planted the Russian flag on it, and declared that Hawaii was Russian? Colony? Russia's practice has not been recognized internationally, so Russia has not been able to shake the real existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom in essence.

In the next half century, the Kingdom of Hawaii has continuously improved its own laws and systems. By the middle of19th century, Hawaii had become a more advanced modern country than the China system at that time.

America invaded Hawaii.

At that time, the United States naturally saw the importance of Hawaii's strategic position, so the United States began to increase the number of American residents in Hawaii. By about AD 1870, Americans had occupied a large proportion in Hawaii. These Americans who came to Hawaii were supported by American officials, so they gradually mastered the economic lifeline of Hawaii. With the help of the United States, a large number of Americans began to slowly integrate into the Hawaiian parliament.

Although the United States has many ideas about Hawaii, it can't do it directly because of international comments. The opportunity for the United States to annex Hawaii occurred in 1874. From 1872 to 1874, two consecutive Hawaiian kings died inexplicably, so the Hawaiian royal family began a battle for the throne. After that, the United States sent troops to Hawaii in the name of maintaining peace and forced the Hawaiian royal family to amend the new law.

All the new laws were revised by American politicians. The new laws recognized the political rights of Hawaiian Americans and denied the political rights of all immigrants except Americans, which laid a political foundation for the subsequent annexation of Hawaii by the United States.

/kloc-at the end of 0/9, the then king of Hawaii wanted to overthrow the constitution formulated by the United States in order to win the independence of Hawaii. Such behavior naturally touches the fundamental interests of the United States.

When Wang Guogang announced the abolition of the old constitution, there were many Americans? Businessman? In the name of ensuring commercial interests, an interim government was established. Moreover, this interim government is supported by the US military, so it is logical for the interim government to overthrow the Hawaiian royal family.

After that, the United States began to station troops in Hawaii and took full control of Hawaii in 1900, but at that time, the United States was not legally recognized, but it was recognized on the surface. Interim government? . It was not until 1959 after World War II that the world situation was stable that the United States completely won Hawaii in law.