WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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civil wars aimed at replacing repressive political leaders
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the establishment of new colonies by European countries
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U.S. military intervention to ensure the payment of debts
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communist revolution in reaction against economic inequality
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Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Roosevelt declared that the United States might “exercise international police power in ‘flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence.
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: -Big stick ideology, big stick diplomacy, or big stick policy refers to President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy, “speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far".
Detailed explanation-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.