WOODROW WILSONS FOREIGN POLICY

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WOODROW WILSONS FOREIGN POLICY

• 1913 TO 1916
• WILSON REJECTS IMPERIALISM. BUT.

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WILSON TAFT
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TR GAVE US THE BIG STICK POLICY

• SEIZED PANAMA
• INVADED MOROCCO
• VOYAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE FLEET
• ROOSEVELT COROLLARY TO MONROE DOCTRINE.

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TAFT GAVE US DOLLAR DIPLOMACY

• PROTECT WALL STREET AND USE WALL STREET TO
  ENFORCE OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
• THE MANCHURIAN RAILROAD
• HONDURAS

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IN 1913 WILSON REJECTED BOTH.

• BUT ULTIMATELY, HE USED BOTH. WHY?

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WILSONS PROBLEMS IN THE CARIBEAN.

• HAITI 1915
• DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1916
• CUBA 1917
• NICARAGUA
• HIGH POINT OF U.S. INTERVENTION.

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THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION

• FRENCH INTERVENTION 1862 TO 1867
• PORFIRIO DIAZ 1876 - 1911
• MADERO TAKES OVER IN 1911
• FEB. 1913 VICTORIO HUERTA LEADS COUP

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MORE

• HUERTA KILLS MADERO
• CARRANZA, PANCHO VILLA, EMILIANO ZAPATA LEAD
  CIVIL WAR AGAINST HUERTA.
• WILSONS POLICY WATCHFUL WAITING.

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WILSON INVADES VERA CRUZ

• TO AID CONSTITUTIONALISTS
• STOP GERMAN AID TO HUERTA
• POLICY BACKFIRES
• PANCHO VILLA INVADES THE U.S.
• WILSON SENDS U.S. ARMY INTO MEXICO.

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PROBLEMS WITH JAPAN.

• 1915 JAPAN ISSUES 21 DEMANDS
• THREATENS THE OPEN DOOR POLICY
• U.S. PROTESTS BUT CAN NOT BACK UP THREATS. JAPAN
  IS NOW A TRUE POWER IN THE PACIFIC.

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NOW SOME QUESTIONS