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ForPolCWtoWWI
Foreign Policy from the Civil War to WWI
Question | Answer |
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Policy asserting that there should be equal trade in Asia, specifically in China; showed the importance of American commercial influence on foreign policy | Open Door |
Doctrine justifying US intervention in the affairs of Latin American nations if their wrongdoing warranted such action; assertion that the US would act as an international policeman | Roosevelt Corollary |
Treaty between Britain and the US in 1901 in which Britain agreed to give up claims to a canal in Panama | Hay-Pauncefote Treaty |
Country into which Wilson sent Marines to calm anarchy; the US took control over this country to maintain order and we remained until 1934 until troops were withdrawn as part of the Good Neighbor Policy | Haiti |
A rider to the Army Appropriations Bill, specifying the conditions under which the US could intervene in Cuba's internal affairs; later incorporated into the Cuban Constitution | Platt Amendment |
Arrangement with Japan that they would voluntarily restrict the immigration of Japanese to the US in return for which Roosevelt would discourage laws that limited Japanese immigration | Gentleman's Agreement |
Uprising of a secret group of Chinese opposed to Christians in their country; killed thousands of foreigners and Chinese in 1900; a military coalition of British, American, Russian, Japanese, and French soldiers put it down | Boxer Rebellion |
Negotiated by TR to end the Russo-Japanese war; He received the Nobel Peace Prize for it | Treaty of Portsmouth |
Tretay with the Japanese that neither the US nor the Japanese would seek territorial gain in the Pacific and both would honor the open door in China | Root-Takahira Agreement |
Group composed of men like Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie who opposed the spread of American possessions throughout the world | Anti-Imperialist League |
Country in which the US supported a revolution in 1911 to protect mining interests; Roosevelt ordered in the Marines | Nicaragua |
Metaphor of Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy trying to use diplomacy in international affairs but being willing to threaten or use force | Big Stick Diplomacy |
Added to the Declaration of War against Spain prohibiting any annexation of Spain and saying our goal was to liberate Cuba from Spain's colonial rule | Teller Amendment |
Sent around the world for a year to show the United States; naval power | Great White Fleet |
Promised Philippine independence under Wilson although it didn't happen for 30 years | Jones Act |
Shift in foreign policy under President Taft to encourage and protect US investment abroad; attempt to avoid military intervention by giving foreign countries monetary aid | Dollar Diplomacy |
Exacerbated ill will with the Japanese because of an effort to force Asian children to attend segregated schools | San Francisco School Board Incident |
Proposed foreign policy to create a customs union of trade and political stability for the Western Hemisphere | Pan Americanism |