18.4 America as a World Power

Objectives:1. Explain how Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy promoted American power around the world.

2. Describe how Woodrow Wilson’s missionary diplomacy ensured U.S. dominance in Latin America.

Russo-Japanese War Russia controlled Manchuria,

threatened to take Korea (controlled by Japanese).

Japan surprisingly defeated Russia and asked Roosevelt to mediate

Russia and Japan meet in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Roosevelt helps iron out a deal, wins 1906 Nobel Peace Prize

In 1907, Roosevelt then sent out the “Great White Fleet”

1907: Great White FleetWhat was its purpose?

Panama Canal

Torn between Panama and Nicaragua

Panama was a province of Colombia

America helped Panama gain independence, took control of a ten mile strip wide canal zone America also retained the right

to interfere, just like in Cuba

10 years, $400 million, 5,600 workers(4,500 were African Amer.)

Great for business, but it hurt our relationships with Latin America, especially Colombia

Roosevelt Corollary

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

“Big Stick” diplomacy

European intervention in Latin America might: “force the United States…to the exercise of an

international police power.”

Taft used dollar diplomacy to keep European nations at bay What is Dollar Diplomacy?

Roosevelt Corollary

“Roosevelt Corollary of December 1904 stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite "foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations." As the corollary worked out in practice, the United States increasingly used military force to restore internal stability to nations in the region. Roosevelt declared that the United States might "exercise international police power in 'flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence.'" Over the long term the corollary had little to do with relations between the Western Hemisphere and Europe, but it did serve as justification for U.S. intervention in Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.”

www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/gp/17660.htm

“Big Sister” becomes “Big Brother”

Why were Latin American countries nervous of Teddy Roosevelt?

1. Santo Domingo

2. Cuba Occupation

3. Puerto Rico

4. Panama Canal Encouraged a revolution

5. Roosevelt Corollary (“preventive intervention”)

a. 1905 - Dominican Republic

b. 1906 – Cuba

Wilson’s “missionary diplomacy”

Wilson denied recognition to any country that was “oppressive, undemocratic, or hostile to U.S. interests.”

MEXICAN REVOLUTION

1911: Wilson refuses to recognize Huerta dictatorship Huerta executed the previous President to gain power

1914: Wilson orders US Marines to occupy Veracruz

Huerta’s regime collapses. Carranza takes over.

PANCHO VILLA

Pancho Villa and Emilio Zapata start rebellion.

1916: Villa’s “troops” invade New Mexico, kill Americans.

Wilson orders John J. Pershing and 15,000 troops into Mexico to hunt down Villa.

US troops fail to capture Villa, withdrawn to fight WWI.

LONG-TERM EFFECT???

TR’s Big Stick v.WW’s Missionary Diplomacy

Map: The United States and the Mexican Revolution

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ANALYSIS:

What were US foreign policy goals during the imperial era?

1. Access to foreign markets

2. Built a modern navy to protect US interests

3. Act as an international “police power”

Was the US successful?

In the short-run?

In the long-run?

WILSON ABROAD – “MISSIONARY/MORAL DIPLOMACY”

Isolationist / pacifist?

Does not support dollar diplomacy

Loosen grip in Philippines

Negotiates with Japan

re: CA anti-immig. laws

Restraint dealing with Mex. Revolution and Huerta

Interventionist?

Haiti

Dominican Republic

Virgin Islands

Nicaragua

Gen. Pershing’s invasion of Mexico in 1917 - Pancho Villa Campaign

TERMS

Panama Canal

Roosevelt Corollary

Dollar diplomacy

Francisco “Pancho” Villa

John J. Pershing

Objectives:

1. Explain how Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy promoted American power around the world.

2. Describe how Woodrow Wilson’s missionary diplomacy ensured U.S. dominance in Latin America.