USA HISTORY

Which foreign policy principle is reflected that the United States has the right to act as the “policeman of the Western Hemisphere” and intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American countries?

(A) Good Neighbor policy

(B) Open Door policy

(C) ** Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

(D) Marshall Plan

Concept note-1: -The Monroe Doctrine had been sought to prevent European intervention in the Western Hemisphere, but now the Roosevelt Corollary justified American intervention throughout the Western Hemisphere.

Concept note-2: -The 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine asserted the U.S. role as policeman of the Western Hemisphere and its right to involve itself in the affairs of Latin American countries.

Concept note-3: -The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe’s seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States’ sphere of interest.

Concept note-4: -Roosevelt Corollary, foreign policy declaration by U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in 1904–05 stating that, in cases of flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American country, the United States could intervene in that country’s internal affairs.