Theodore Roosevelt, "Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine" – Flashcards

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What did TR say about the nation or the individual who would "proclaim its purposes, or to take positions which are ridiculous if unsupported by potential force, and then to refuse to provide this force"?
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It is not unwise to use high-sounding language
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According to TR, the United States should "shun unrighteous war," but it should also shun three types of peace. What were they?
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Peace of tyrannous terror, craven weakness, and injustice
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TR observes (in 1904) that there was "as yet no judicial way of enforcing a right in international law" (such as the later League of Nations or United Nations). In light of that fact, what duty did the "great civilized nations of the present" have?
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If they should completely disarm, the result would mean an immediate recrudescence of barbarism in one form or another
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According to TR, it was not true United States felt "any land hunger" towards the nations of the Western Hemisphere. Instead, he said that "all that this country desires" for those nations was what?
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see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous
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If countries in the Western Hemisphere demonstrated a "chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society," then the United States's adherence to the Monroe Doctrine would, according to TR, compel her to do what?
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Exercise an international police power
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TR promised that the United States would intervene with Western Hemisphere nations "only in the last resort," and then only if their "inability or unwillingness to do justice at home and abroad" had resulted in one or two consequences; what were those two consequences?
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violate the rights of the United States or had invited foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations
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Regarding interventions in situations where "our own interests are not greatly involved," TR said that rather than concerning "ourselves with trying to better the condition of things in other nations," it was "ordinarily...very much wiser and more useful for us to concern ourselves" with what?
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striving for our own moral and material betterment at home
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In spite of what TR said in question no. 7, he acknowledged that the United States might need to at least "show our disapproval of the deed and our sympathy with those who have suffered by it" in what occasions?
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The cases must be extreme in which such a course is justifiable
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