USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing . . . may . . . ultimately require some intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing . . ., to the exercise of an international police power.-President Theodore Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1904 According to President Roosevelt, which of the following actions in Latin America could be justified?

(A) civil wars aimed at replacing repressive political leaders

(B) the establishment of new colonies by European countries

(C) ** U.S. military intervention to ensure the payment of debts

(D) communist revolution in reaction against economic inequality

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.

Concept note-2: -The corollary stated that not only were the nations of the Western Hemisphere not open to colonization by European powers, but that the United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in those countries.

Concept note-3: -“Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, ” he stated.

Concept note-4: -Roosevelt declared that the United States might “exercise international police power in ‘flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence.

Concept note-5: -The Square Deal was Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources.