USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

[SOURCES]
A foreign nation enjoys special rights and powers

(A) Open door policy

(B) Dollar Diplomacy

(C) ** Sphere of Influence

(D) yellow journalism

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Extreme nationalism marked by aggressive foreign policy. Section of a country where one foreign nation enjoys special rights and powers. A policy of joining the business interests of a country with its diplomatic interests abroad.

Concept note-2: -The Open Door policy-first initiated in 1899, with a follow-up missive in 1900-was significant in its attempt by the United States to establish an international protocol of equal privileges for all countries trading with China and to support China’s territorial and administrative integrity.

Concept note-3: -Imperialism. Imperialism occurs when a strong nation takes over a weaker nation or region and dominates its economic, political, or cultural life. This type of foreign policy was practiced by European nations and Japan throughout the 1800s and early 1900s.

Concept note-4: -Jingoism is nationalism in the form of aggressive and proactive foreign policy, such as a country’s advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests.

Concept note-5: -Imperialism is known as actions used by one nation to exercise political or economic control over a smaller weaker nation.