Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conscious of the dangers inherent in such an effort to seek economic well-being outside our borders Charles Austin Beard in The Open Door at Home (1934) attacked the open door policy. He advocated an entirely new, non-expansionist economic and political orientation in order to achieve two crucial objectives: (1) to provide a minimum standard of living for all Americans in a non-socialist but planned redistribution of wealth; and (2) to avoid the possibility of being drawn into foreign wars which did not directly threaten our survival. By renouncing Cordell Hull's trade-expansion policy, the United States...
...never credited with demolishing the open-door illusion. Williams does not mention him in the remarkable preface to The Roots of the Modern American Empire, which chronicles the growth of this fascinating theory of American imperialism. Extensive research shows that Williams had adopted the substance of Beard's anti-expansionist vision by 1950. Beard himself, it should be noted, explicitly recognized that agriculture, as much as industry, clamored for foreign markets as a means of avoiding depression. "Cold-war revisionism," then, turns out to be, at least in part, a revival of Beard...