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Roosevelt Corollary

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The "Roosevelt Corollary" was announced issued by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1904. The Monroe Doctrine, issued in 1823, asked the Europeans not to increase their influence on countries in the Americas. Roosevelt had grown concerned that ,possibly, the Dominican Republic and it's creditors might spark an invasion of European powers on the Americas. So, he came out with the Corollary. It declares stated that the United States may "could, as a last resort, intervene" in any Latin American country in order so that the Europeans fulfilled their obligations to protect the intrests of the United StatesAmericas. In other words, Roosevelt said that the United States may occupy any country might "Exercise international police power in South America that we see as a problem'flagrant cases of such wrongdoing importance. For example, '" The Roosevelt Corollary has served to justify the communists United Stares in Cuba and Venezuela could be seen as a problem, giving Nicaragua, Haiti, and the United States a reason to occupy either countryDominican Republic.
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