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TRANSCRIPT
Focus Question:
In a short reply of one to three sentences, respond to the following prompt:
• Explain how can you best get along with your neighbors
Objectives
After today’s lesson, you will:• Describe three foreign policy strategies of
the U.S. in the early 20th Century
Relationship with Latin America
• The U.S. has to rethink foreign policy strategy
• Prior strategy: Neutrality in world affairs• Monroe Doctrine (1823)•U.S. won’t allow Europeans
to reestablish coloniesin the Americas
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
• TR was an ardent nationalist• Disciple of Mahan’s theories of Naval
supremacy• Promoted Imperialism
“Big Stick” Diplomacy
• West African Proverb “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick
• Use the military to meet foreign policy aims•The Navy as the “Big Stick”•Panama and the Canal Zone
Roosevelt Corollary
• Latin American nations in debt to Europeans•Europeans threatened to intervene•U.S. occupied several nations to force repayment
• The U.S. reserved the right to intervene in Latin American affairs
William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
• Trained as a lawyer• Served as a federal judge• Military Governor of the Philippines
“Dollar Diplomacy”
• Use trade and investment in conducting policy•U.S. firms invest heavily into Latin America•Look to the U.S. to protect investments•U.S. uses economic pressure to meet aims
Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
• Son and grandson of Presbyterian ministers
• Trained as an academic• President of Princeton University• Governor of New Jersey
Moral Diplomacy
• U.S. to set an example to the world•Set a moral tone to policies•Promote democracy in Latin America
• Self-government in the Philippines• Voting rights in Puerto Rico
Mexico
• Moral Diplomacy tested by Mexico• 1913: Mexican government overthrown by
Huerta•Huerta promised to protect U.S. investments•Wilson refused to recognize the Huerta regime
• U.S. lent support to Carranza in 1914• Huerta fled the country