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TIL From 1897-1903 Imperial Germany constructed plans to invade the United States to sever its growing economic and political connections in the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean, and South America. Hints of the German plans were first found by scholar Alfred Vagts in the 1930s and published in 1940.

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