HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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Question
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Monroe Doctrine
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Geopolitics
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Theodore Roosevelt’s assertive approach to Latin America and the Caribbean has often been characterized as the “Big Stick, ‘’ and his policy came to be known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The doctrine’s greatest extension came with Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary, which inverted the original meaning of the doctrine and came to justify unilateral U.S. intervention in Latin America.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Roosevelt Corollary was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine signed in 1824.