US Foreign Policy Flashcards
What did the Monroe Doctrine consist of?
Thinking that South America was effectively within the American sphere of influence.
What did the Treaty of Paris in 1998 determine?
That cuba was free from Spanish Rule.
What is a corollary ?
A corollary is a statement that follows readily from a previous statement.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
It consisted in a paternalist and patronising attitude of the US towards other countries, with a notion of racial supremacy and an underlying imperialist attitude.
What are the Banana Wars?
The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts, military operations/occupations which ended with the withdrawal of American troops from Haiti and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Good Neighbour Policy in 1934.
What was the Open Door Policy ?
The policy gave all nations equal access to trade in China, and guaranteed that China would no be taken over by any one foreign power.
What as Taft’s ‘Dollar Diplomacy’?
It consisted in improving financial opportunities for American businesses, by using private capital to further US interest rates overseas.
What was the Washington disarmament Conference?
It was held in the aim of naval disarmament and to solve the political situation in the Far East.
What did the Dawes Plan consist of?
In 1924, the plan consisted of the US loaning 2.5 billion dollars to Germany. Germany would then give 2 billion in reparation payment to the Allies, and the Allies would then give 2,6 billion to the US as War Debt Payments.
What was the Clark Memorandum?
A pledge that the US would not intervene in Latin American affairs in order to protect US property rights. This was a complete rebuke of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
The pact consisted of 15 nations agreeing to make aggression and war as tools of foreign policy illegal. However, their were no means of actual reinforcement of this pact and therefore it’s effectiveness can be questioned.
What was the Hoover-Stimpson Doctrine ?
- it consisted in the US not recognising any territorial acquisitions that were achieved by force.
What did the Neutrality Acts consist of?
The Neutrality Acts prohibited the sale of arms to belligerent nations, prohibited loans and credits to belligerent nations and forbade Americans to travel on vessels of nations of war.
What was the notion of an “Arsenal of Democracy” ?
The idea comes from Franklin D. Roosevelt and implied that the US would build and send weapons to democracies, especially in Britain, in order to protect the values of democracy in the face of totalitarism. (An arsenal means weapon factory)
What precedented the Berlin Blockade?
Stalin wanted a de-industrialised and agriculture based Germany, and wanted Britain and the US to reconsider their stance against this nation by applying pressure to their weak point, West Berlin.
