AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
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Magna Carta
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Declaration of Human Rights
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Monroe Doctrine
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Declaration of Independence
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Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-3: -President James Monroe’s 1823 annual message to Congress contained the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.