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the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 Explanation: Although the sinking of the Maine happened before Roosevelt took office, the subsequent U.S. invasion of Cuba was the beginning of American involvement in Latin America, a policy that the Roosevelt Corollary attempts to justify. Concept: Global Participation 1901-1945
...In asserting the Monroe Doctrine, in taking such steps as we have taken in regard to Cuba, Venezuela, and Panama, and in endeavoring to circumscribe the theater of war in the Far East, and to secure the open door in China, we have acted in our own interest as well as in the interest of humanity at large... Ordinarily it is very much wiser and more useful for us to concern ourselves with striving for our own moral and material betterment here at home than to concern ourselves with trying to better the condition of things in other nations... Nevertheless there are occasional crimes committed on so vast a scale and of such peculiar horror as to make us doubt whether it is not our manifest duty to endeavor at least to show our disapproval of the deed and our sympathy with those who have suffered by it." WHEN MENTIONING "occasional crimes on so vast a scale," TO WHAT INCIDENT IS ROOSEVELT IS MOST LIKELY REFERRING?
The Russo-Japanese War Explanation: In 1905, the same year of the Roosevelt Corollary, President Roosevelt offered to broker a peace between Japan and Russia, who were battling over territory in Manchuria. The Treaty of Portsmouth ended the Russo-Japanese war and won Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize. Of the other options, only the Philippine Revolution occurred close to Roosevelt's presidency, but by 1905 the Philippines was no longer a theater of war, but a U.S. protectorate. Concept: Global Participation 1901-1945
...In asserting the Monroe Doctrine, in taking such steps as we have taken in regard to Cuba, Venezuela, and Panama, and in endeavoring to circumscribe the theater of war in the Far East, and to secure the open door in China, we have acted in our own interest as well as in the interest of humanity at large... Ordinarily it is very much wiser and more useful for us to concern ourselves with striving for our own moral and material betterment here at home than to concern ourselves with trying to better the condition of things in other nations... Nevertheless there are occasional crimes committed on so vast a scale and of such peculiar horror as to make us doubt whether it is not our manifest duty to endeavor at least to show our disapproval of the deed and our sympathy with those who have suffered by it." WHEN ROOSEVELT REFERS TO "the theater of war in the Far East," WHAT CONFLICT IS HE MOST LIKELY DISCUSSING?
The Good Neighbor policy rejected the precedent of armed intervention in Latin America that began under the Roosevelt Corollary. Explanation: After many US occupations of Latin American countries in the period 1901-1933, Franklin Roosevelt officially reversed the course of American foreign policy there, withdrawing troops from Haiti and Nicaragua and signing a treaty to annual the Platt Amendment over Cuba. Concept: Global Participation 1901-1945
...In asserting the Monroe Doctrine, in taking such steps as we have taken in regard to Cuba, Venezuela, and Panama, and in endeavoring to circumscribe the theater of war in the Far East, and to secure the open door in China, we have acted in our own interest as well as in the interest of humanity at large... Ordinarily it is very much wiser and more useful for us to concern ourselves with striving for our own moral and material betterment here at home than to concern ourselves with trying to better the condition of things in other nations... Nevertheless there are occasional crimes committed on so vast a scale and of such peculiar horror as to make us doubt whether it is not our manifest duty to endeavor at least to show our disapproval of the deed and our sympathy with those who have suffered by it." WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BEST DESCRIBES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEN THE ROOSEVELT COROLLARY AND GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY, IMPLEMENTED BY FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT IN 1933?
