Cleveland Administrations - Foreign Issues
Foreign Issues
Beginning with the Monroe Doctrine (advanced by President James Monroe in 1823), the U.S. foreign policy posture had generally been one of not becoming involved in the political affairs of nations outside the Western Hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine clearly warned Europe that the United States would protect the smaller republics of Central and South America from interference by the European powers. Over time the United States itself occasionally intervened in the affairs of these smaller republics. With regard to the rest of the world, however, until the last decade of the nineteenth century U.S. foreign policy did not contemplate getting involved in building an empire as Great Britain had done. Beginning in the 1890s, there was an increasingly vocal tendency within the foreign policy establishment, as well as from diverse sectors of U.S. society, to advocate that the United States set about acquiring its own empire. To...
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