IB History Impact of US Expansionist Foreign Policy Key Definitions

The use of American loans, investment, banking influence, customs supervision, and financial advisers to advance United States strategic and commercial interests abroad, especially under President William Howard Taft (1909-1913).

Woodrow Wilson's claim that United States foreign policy should support constitutional government, democracy, lawful rule, and national self-determination rather than rely primarily on force or private financial interest.

A US congressional amendment incorporated into Cuba's constitution that gave the USA the right to intervene in Cuban affairs, required Cuba to lease naval bases to the USA, and vetoed Cuba's ability to sign treaties with other powers or incur debts beyond a certain level. It made Cuba nominally independent but functionally a US protectorate, and remained in force until 1934.

The 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine asserting that the United States could intervene in Latin American and Caribbean states when instability or debt threatened to invite European involvement.

A conflict fought in 1898 between the United States and Spain, centred on Cuba but extending to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. It ended Spanish colonial rule in these areas and created a new American overseas empire.

The political, territorial, diplomatic, economic, and human consequences produced when the United States extended its power across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific from 1898 onward.