USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

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Moral Diplomacy-the US should be a model to the nations of the Caribbean.

(A) Taft

(B) ** Wilson

(C) Roosevelt

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Concept note-1: -’Moral’ diplomacy is a form of diplomacy proposed by President Woodrow Wilson in his 1912 United States presidential election. Moral diplomacy is the system in which support is given only to countries whose beliefs are analogous to that of the nation.

Concept note-2: -Wilson thought that the United States alone could shape an effective peace settlement because he believed that the combatants were politically and morally bankrupt. Wilson felt that American intervention in 1917 would ensure that the United States would play a decisive role and dominate the postwar peace conference.

Concept note-3: -He wanted to end secret alliances, arms races, nationalism, and economic rivalry. He advocated the spread of American institutions such as democratic government, broad suffrage, a capitalist economy, and a liberal bourgeois society to all European societies.

Concept note-4: -Lesson Summary In the end, moral diplomacy increased the U.S.’s direct military action in many countries and also greatly impacted the economy by manipulating situations in countries that were not democratic or those that held what Wilson viewed as morally corrupt values.