Imperialism Flashcards
Foreign policy
How the government handles affairs with other countries
Isolationism
George Washington strongly believed in this, staying out of other countries’s affairs and isolating yourself
Collective security
Allying and cooperating with other countries to try to stay out of wars
Internationalism
Corporatering with other nation and intervening for the promotion of common good
Imperialism
A more powerful country takes over a less powerful
4 types of foreign policy:
Isolationism
Collective security
Internationalism
Imperialism
4 types of imperialism
Cultural
Colonial
Polictical
Economic
Cultural imperialism
Influence of a countries’s culture on another foreign one
Colonial imperialism
Taking over another country by force
Political imperialism
Having influence on another countries’s government
Economic imperialism
Control key aspects of another countries’s economy
Monroe doctorine
Warning to other countries, stay out of Western Hemisphere
Manifest destiny
The idea that America is superior and meant to take over the west and expand
Alfred T Mahan
Builds up navy: now needs colonies for refueling stations and can sell and trade globally. Wants to be empire
Expansionism
Expanding a nation or territory in some way of imperialism