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The American Anti-Imperialist League was an organization established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area.The anti-imperialists opposed forced expansion, believing that imperialism violated the fundamental principle that just republican government must derive from "consent of the governed".
The American rejection of the League of Nations in 1919 was accompanied with a sharp American reaction against European imperialism. American textbooks denounced imperialism as a major cause of the World War. The uglier aspects of British colonial rule were emphasized, recalling the long-standing anti-British sentiments in the United States. [25]
United States non-interventionism primarily refers to the foreign policy that was eventually applied by the United States between the late 18th century and the first half of the 20th century whereby it sought to avoid alliances with other nations in order to prevent itself from being drawn into wars that were not related to the direct territorial self-defense of the United States.
American imperialism is the expansion of American political, economic, cultural, ... [17] [18] The Whig Party strongly opposed this war and expansionism generally.
Leaflet promoting a December 1928 membership meeting of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League in New York City. The All-America Anti-Imperialist League (also known as Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas, Spanish: Liga Antiimperialista de las Americas (LADLA)) was an international mass organization of Communist International established in 1925 to organize against American and European ...
Hoar was a consistent opponent of American imperialism. He did not share his Senate colleagues' enthusiasm for American intervention in Cuba in the late 1890s. In December 1897, he met with Native Hawaiian leaders opposed to the annexation of their nation.
Meanwhile, Bryan ran against the imperialism of McKinley and the Republicans and argued that imperialism is directly opposed to basic American values. [4] In addition, Bryan campaigned in favor of campaign finance reform and associated Republicans with big business and trusts (and their abuses) following a gaffe by Hanna (where he said that ...
Willi Münzenberg, the German communist and chair of the Workers International Relief, initiated the establishment of the League Against Imperialism.To this end, he invited many personalities from European and American Left and anti-colonial nationalists from the colonised world.