The Roosevelt Corollary expanded the Monroe Doctrine by stating that the United States could intervene in Latin American countries to prevent European countries from doing so. It allowed the US to act as a police power in the region. While the Monroe Doctrine said European countries should not interfere in the Americas, the Roosevelt Corollary gave the US sole right to interfere if needed to keep European nations out. It was presented in response to a 1902 blockade of Venezuela by European countries due to unpaid debts.
2. The Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the
Monroe Doctrine. It stated that no European
countries were allowed to intervene in Latin
American affairs. The only way that the U.S
was allowed to become involved was if the
affairs or European countries was threatened.
The United States could exercise police power
in Latin America.
The United States was the only country
allowed to interfere with Latin American
countries.
3. In late 1902, Britain, Germany, and Italy
implemented a naval blockade of several
months against Venezuela because of
President Cipriano Castro's refusal to pay
foreign debts and damages suffered by
European citizens in a recent Venezuelan civil
war. The incident was called the Venezuela
Crisis of 1902–1903.
4. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt further
renounced interventionism and established his
"Good Neighbor Policy", leaving unchallenged
the emergence of dictatorships like that
of Batista in Cuba or Trujillo in the Dominican
Republic. Three highly oppressive dictators-
Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo,
Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, and
Haitian dictator François Duvalier- were each
considered to be "frankenstein dictators" due
to the mishandlings of the American
occupations in the countries.
5. The Roosevelt Corollary was supposed to be an
addition to the Monroe Doctrine, however, it
could be seen as a departure. While the
Monroe Doctrine said European countries
should stay out of Latin America, the Roosevelt
Corollary took this further to say that the
United States had the right to exercise military
force in Latin American countries in order to
keep European countries out
References: "The Roosevelt Corollary“ by Richard Serge
Theodore Roosevelt, Corollary to The
Monroe Doctrine, 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt
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