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Which of the following warned european powers to stay out

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of the western hemisphere and hear the pencil answer All

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right truman All right Well as soon as america got

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on its little diplomatic feat government officials decided to step

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a big toe into the waters of international affairs Geopolitical

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tsunami alert me that's What it sounds like a really

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all right Where european powers warned to stay out of

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the western hemisphere in a the truman doctrine well sort

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of the truman doctrine focused only on one european power

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the soviet union since the american government wanted to do

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everything in its power to contain the spread of communism

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But truman had his eyes on the entire world prize

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not just the western hemisphere where european powers told to

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scram via be dollar diplomacy Well in the age of

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dollar diplomacy president taft and his administration took the traditional

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role of european meddlers using american investment as a means

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of spreading us influence throughout the region So he confessed

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to move out here did d the roosevelt corollary warn

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european powers to stay out of the western hemisphere Well

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that it did But the roosevelt corollary named for teddy

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roosevelt was more about legitimizing the use of military force

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when it came to a latin american conflict with european

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nations So we can rule out date What about either

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good neighbor policy and like a good neighbor mater is

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there Yeah That's Our all right Well actually the good

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neighbor policy was directed more towards latin america in europe

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with trouble brewing throughout the rest of the world franklin

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roosevelt decided a policy of hey let's be friends would

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play better in latin america than hey you have to

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be our friend or else Yeah well that means european

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powers were warned to stay out of the western hemisphere

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In see the monroe doctrine monroe doctrine put forward in

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eighteen twenty three was the united states first big hear

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me roar on the world stage James monroe declared the

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western hemisphere to be america's turf and that any european

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efforts to interfere for established new colonies in north or

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south america would be met with the u s intervention

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Nice word for guns So c is the correct answer

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The monroe doctrine served as the opening chapter two two

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centuries of u s intervention in latin america a story

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which involved trading weapons for hostages using a postage stamp

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to bring down a government and one crazy banana king

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