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
Why people against expansionism
Reasons:
1. Against American principles
2. Afraid countries would revolt
3. They said countries could never learn American ways and culture
Alaska
Bought by William Seward for 2 cents an acre
Called sewards folly but actually has gold, oil, timber, etc…
Hawaii
Everyone wanted Hawaiian sugar cane, sold for a lot
Illegal American group takes queen lili hostage and take over Hawaii
Grover Cleveland against but goes with it because war is already starting
Naval base peral harbor
Queen Lili
Last Hawaiian monarch forced to give up throne when America took over
Protectorate
State that is controlled but protected, technically own state has restrictions though, can have own government
Territory
A region of USA not yet admitted to union but has own government