Dollar diplomacy A policy of President William Taft to promote American economic penetration to underdeveloped nations, especially in Latin America; it sought to strengthen American influence without requiring the presence of U. S. troops, 605
Isolationism A national policy that eschews foreign alliances, such as was propounded by George Washington in his “Farewell Address.” Isolationism was also embraced by part of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 and after the First World War, when the United States refused to join the League of Nations and sought to distance itself during the 1930s from the rumblings of another world war. Isolationism ended as national policy when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, 586
Open Door policy A policy, propounded by
Secretary of State John Hay in 1899, affirming the
Territorial integrity of China and a policy of free trade, 602
Platt Amendment A law, passed in 1901 and superseding the Teller Amendment, which stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of American forces from Cuba; it also transferred ownership of the naval base at Guantanamo Bay to the United States, 598
“reconcentration” camps A term that referred to the Spanish refugee camps into which Cuban farmers were herded in 1896 to prevent them from providing assistance to rebels fighting for Cuban independence from Spain, 591
Teller Amendment A rider to the 1898 war resolution with Spain whereby Congress pledged that it did not intend to annex Cuba and that it would recognize Cuban independence from Spain, 592
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