task 8.4, 8.6 and 8.7 imperialism

U.S Foreign Policy Principles

• Isolationism

• Collective Security

• Internationalism

• Imperialism

U.S. Foreign Policy• 1897-1908, Theodore

Roosevelt– Big Stick Diplomacy

• 1909-1913, William Howard Taft– Dollar Diplomacy

• 1914-1919, Woodrow Wilson-– Moral Diplomacy

Big Stick Diplomacy

Dollar Diplomacy

Moral Diplomacy

military force used when necessary – “speak softly and carry a big stick”

foreign investment will keep Latin America on our side

let nation’s citizens decide on leadership (self-determination) with US support of democracies

Maintain Neutrality in European war

Spanish-American War• Yellow Journalism• USS Maine sunk in

Havana• Harbor• Teller Amendment

then Platt Amendment

• Battle of Manila (American Sea Power)

• Battle of San Juan Hill (Teddy Roosevelt)

Cuba• Jose Marti• Anti-Colonialism

Sentiment• Sugar

(American Companies)

• Spanish American War

• Platt Amendment

Crisis at Hand, Spanish Treachery

Philippines• Philippines• George Dewey• Emilio Aguinaldo• Geopolitical

important• Civilize

(Whiteman’s Burden)

• No independence• 1901 resistance

defeated

China

What was the “open door” policy?

Puerto RicoPanama Canal

Ceded Spanish American War

Protectorate

Transplant democracy

HawaiiQueen Liliokalani

Sugar Interests

Annexation Treaty-1898

John Stephens

MexicoPorfirio Diaz

Foreign investment-oil

Mexican Revolution 1910

Zapata, Villa, Huerta

Moral Diplomacy