From The Monroe's Doctrine To The Open Door

Foreign expansion has been the essence and purpose of U.S. foreign policy .However, taking into account the its own strength ,early American foreign policy has the isolationism color. Particularly in the early nineteenth century,the United States is a relatively small emerging capitalist countries,just obtained the victory of the war of independence,it is time to develop.The economic and military strength was relatively weak.Politically, the bourgeois regime was in the establishment and consolidation phase,so, tried to avoid involvement in foreign policy disputes among the European powers.However, because the United States and the European continent's natural cultural and economic Links,it is very difficult to completely stay out .In the nineteenth century, the Spanish colonial rule in many parts of Latin America, began to fall apart, a series of countries gained independence.These newly independent countries faced the new controls risk of the old colonial empires such as Britain and France .The United States's fearing that they fell in the hands of Britain and France ,after sperating Spain ,thus affected the United States's economic development and expansion of the policy implementation in latin America.The U.S. ruling class's strongly analysizing the situation eventually led to the Monroe Declaration, that was the Monroe Doctrine generation.Monroe Doctrine broadly includes the following three principles:First,never implemented colonial principle; Second, non-interference principle; Third, the principle of inter-America's system.These principles became the expansionist policy cornerstone of the United States to Latin America.With of the continuous development the U.S. economic and military strength and comprehensive national strength has gradually improved,some domestic special interest groups were no longer satisfied with the expansion of the America's continent,they need a much broader market to stimulate greater development of the capitalist economy.At the same time the U.S. concept of traditional culture - "Destiny's said," Provides a theoretical basis for further expansion for the United States.So,the U.S. will be under the guise of "Maine" incident to launch a long-planned Spanish-American War,and began to extend his expansion of the magic hands to Pacific Far East Chinese,presented an equality opportunity " open-door policy", to expand its pace of expansion, which established the U.S. policy of overseas expansion.The United States, respectively, in September 1899 and in July 1900, two open-door note,repeatedly emphasized that the United States has no intention of occupying Chinese territory.On the contrary, protecting China's territorial integrity and sovereignty was a prerequisite for the implementation of open door policy.The United States's puting forward the "equal opportunity", "equal behalf" open-door policy and its essence was,that the United States wanted to protect open China's market for its integrity,and came ture the maximize business interests in China.The evolution of the expansionist policy from the Monroe Doctrine to the Open Door of the United States shifted from the mainland to overseas.The Monroe Doctrine achieve the intention of U.S. hegemony in the Americas,completed change from the "America is America for Americans" to "America is the United States of America,".The Open Door eastablished an informal international control mechanism for the allocated interest of foreign powers in the Far East and to protect U.S. commercial largest interests in China.Whether the Monroe Doctrine or the Open-Door policy,Is serving a theme - expansion - to maximize the pursuit of U.S. national interests.In the end,the United States on the world's leadership and dominance was established.