POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Alan Seeger, Monroe Doctrine, Espionage Act Of 1917
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The neutrality is put to the test when the british blockades european. When he won the 1912 election, he had no foreign policy experience. He was an academic with mostly that kind of experience. He hasn"t had to deal with questions of foreign policy. He did believed that the monroe doctrine, he upheld american presence in the southern. He doesn"t involve himself with the politics and affairs of europe. The country has kept to itself, that it has pursued isolationist policies. At the outbreak of the first word war, america declares its neutrality. America"s neutrality allowed it to trade with all powers, whether at war or not. Also that all american citizens could travel freely in any civilian ship without breaking any neutrality. America also believed that since it was neutral, and could remain neutral because its interests were protected, america was in the best place to mediate any negotiations. Historically, america had mediated negotiations in the past.
