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6 days ago · The United States’ occupation of the Micronesian island of Guam might have been friendlier than the Spanish invasion. The U.S., at least, managed to not eradicate the local population of the ...
The population of Guam got the American citizenship in 1929. So, after the end of World War II, many more Guamanians emigrated to the US. Most of them were in the military or married with military people. In 1950, the population of Guam gained the full American citizenship, which favoured Guamanian migration to the US. So, the first major ...
Jul 7, 2023 · By the end of World War II, 135 million people lived under U.S. rule outside the continental United States; America’s overseas territories made up nearly a fifth of its land area, according to ...
It was 500 years ago, in 1521, when Ferdinand Magellan’s ships, weary and hungry, pulled up to this island, beginning 300 years of Spanish conquest. Nowadays most Americans, if they know of Guam ...
Aug 9, 2017 · U.S. relationship. Guam was claimed by Spain in 1565 and became a U.S. territory in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. Japan seized it for about 2 1/2 years during World War II. In 1950, an act ...
Aug 24, 2018 · How the US territory of Guam became a US territory. In Part 1, AJ+ looks into Guam’s history, speaking to Hattori, who explains that due to a 1901 US Supreme Court decision, people living in the ...
This sad episode is further evidence that much more education and enlight-enment needs to reach the everyday US resident and the halls of Congress. Acknowledgement, respect, equity, and equality for Guam and the Chamoru people seem to be a pipe dream and still decades away. Effects of Colonialism and Occupation.
