Becoming a World Power

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Becoming a World Power

• Teddy, Taft and Wilson?

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Imperialism Recap

• The policy of establishing economic, political,
  and military dominance over weaker nations, on
  humanitarian and moral grounds.
• Motivations
• Political
• Economic
• Social
• Moral
• 1899 Open Door Policy
• Written by Secretary of State John Hay
• Japan, Europe, and U.S.(?) dont control China.
• Territorial integrity U.S. wont worry about
  another power gaining control.
• Did they ask the Chinese?

3
Roosevelts Foreign Policy

• 1901 McKinley gets it, TR gets the presidency.
• Big Stick Diplomacy
• Speak softly and carry a big stick.

4
TR The Panama Canal

• The Problem The U.S. wants to build a canal
  through Panama to for world domination. Columbia
  says no.
• The Solution Support a secret coup (the sudden,
  violent overthrow of government) for Panamanian
  independence. Force the new government to
  accept your canal without Congressional approval.
• 1902 I took the Canal and let Congress debate.

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Russo-Japanese War

• 1904 Japan and Russia fight.
• Japan wins with U.S. backing.
• Japan promises not to interfere in the
  Phillipines.
• Why did we care?
• Threat to Open Door Policy.
• Japan beats a white race - leads to school
  segregation and reinforces racist fears -
  xenophobia.

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Roosevelt Corollary

• 1905 Extends the Monroe Doctrine
• The U.S. has the right to be an international
  police power in the Western Hemisphere.
• Monroe Doctrine No colonization.
• Roosevelt Corollary Its ours, _at_(_at_(.
• Interventionism Proactive military interference
  by one country in the affairs of another.

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Bye, Bye TR. Hello WHT.

• 1909 William Howard Taft elected.
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Encourages American bankers to lend money to
  Central American nations.
• Investment in mines, railroads, coffee, and
  banana plantations.
• U.S. has successfully consolidated power in
  Central America - now what?

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Taft and China

• Motivations
• Yellow peril.
• Christian conversion.
• 400 million potential consumers?

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Election of 1912

• Candidates and candidates and candidates - Oh my!
• Wilson and the Democrats.
• Taft and the Republicans.
• Debs and the Socialists.
• Roosevelt and the Bull Moose?
• Wilson wins the electoral college but only gets
  42 of the popular vote.

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Wilsons Foreign Policy

• A new party and a new philosophy of -
  self-determination, gasp!
• Isolationism A government policy based on the
  belief that national interests are best served by
  avoiding alliances with other countries.

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But not for long

• 1914 Mexico
• Mexican president Victorio Heurta, Tampico, and
  the Germans?
• U.S. occupied Veracruz.
• U.S. backs new Presidential candidate Carranza.
• Pancho Villa kills 17 American in retalition.
• Wilson sends 15,000 troops into Mexico to find
  Villa.
• Totally unsucessful, left in 1917.