Compare And Contrast The American Foreign Policy Between 1890 And 1940
How far was American Foreign Policy inconsistent between 1890 and 1940? (45)
The American Foreign Policy between 1890 and 1940 was fairly inconsistent, however did hold some consistencies in its core principles over the fifty years. These consistencies concerned US self-interest, trading rights and the economic policies within the Americas. The first twenty years of the century saw the U.S. leadership pursue interventionist strategies in dealing with other countries. However, the next fifteen years witnessed a clear alteration towards isolationism. With the election of Roosevelt to the White House a gap grew between the isolationist American public and an increasingly internationalist policy. This gap temporarily disappeared with the Japanese …show more content…
He showed this radical change from isolationism to intervention in the Americas post 1901. He was well known for his more aggressive tone of foreign policy, with his ‘Big Stick’ diplomacy in the Latin Americas. He was also known for his military expansion as well as trade, “Great masterful races have been fighting races”. The Platt Amendment, passed in 1901, allowed extensive intervention in Cuba as it was incorporated into the Cuban-American Treaty of 1903, “The government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene…” Roosevelt, also a Republican, had put interests first in trade leading to his constant portrayal in cartoons as a large policeman figure, with a stick, portrayed as a bully like figure, who was very authoritative. The Panama Canal project not only showed extensive intervention with sponsoring of the uprising of Panamanian separatists from Columbia, to create the Panama Canal Zone for trade, followed by the Roosevelt Corollary 1904, allowed Roosevelt to enforce US power in neighbouring countries to solve both social and political matters. The sphere of influence not only increased from the Americas, but also involved the ‘Western Hemisphere’ allowing the ‘exercise of an international police
The American Foreign Policy between 1890 and 1940 was fairly inconsistent, however did hold some consistencies in its core principles over the fifty years. These consistencies concerned US self-interest, trading rights and the economic policies within the Americas. The first twenty years of the century saw the U.S. leadership pursue interventionist strategies in dealing with other countries. However, the next fifteen years witnessed a clear alteration towards isolationism. With the election of Roosevelt to the White House a gap grew between the isolationist American public and an increasingly internationalist policy. This gap temporarily disappeared with the Japanese …show more content…
He showed this radical change from isolationism to intervention in the Americas post 1901. He was well known for his more aggressive tone of foreign policy, with his ‘Big Stick’ diplomacy in the Latin Americas. He was also known for his military expansion as well as trade, “Great masterful races have been fighting races”. The Platt Amendment, passed in 1901, allowed extensive intervention in Cuba as it was incorporated into the Cuban-American Treaty of 1903, “The government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene…” Roosevelt, also a Republican, had put interests first in trade leading to his constant portrayal in cartoons as a large policeman figure, with a stick, portrayed as a bully like figure, who was very authoritative. The Panama Canal project not only showed extensive intervention with sponsoring of the uprising of Panamanian separatists from Columbia, to create the Panama Canal Zone for trade, followed by the Roosevelt Corollary 1904, allowed Roosevelt to enforce US power in neighbouring countries to solve both social and political matters. The sphere of influence not only increased from the Americas, but also involved the ‘Western Hemisphere’ allowing the ‘exercise of an international police