USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

[SOURCES]
What doctrine gave the United Sates justification for helping Cuba?

(A) Magna Carta

(B) Declaration of Human Rights

(C) ** Monroe Doctrine

(D) Declaration of Independence

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -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-2: -What motives were behind the Monroe Doctrine? The Monroe Doctrine was drafted because the U.S. government was worried that European powers would encroach on the U.S. sphere of influence by carving out colonial territories in the Americas.

Concept note-3: -In the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, President John F. Kennedy cited the Monroe Doctrine as grounds for the United States’ confrontation with the Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet ballistic missiles on Cuban soil.