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Foreign Policy

A New Foreign Policy

The Panama Canal– America needed shorter route between Atlantic

and Pacific Oceans– French company bought 25-year concession from

Colombia to build a canal across Panama– Defeated by yellow fever and mismanagement,

project abandoned– U.S. offered remaining rights for $100 million.

“Big Stick” Diplomacy & Theodore Roosevelt

“Speak softly and carry a big stick”– Used by Roosevelt to guide his foreign policy– Would try to work things out but would use military as a

threat to get what US wanted Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

– U.S. to act as an “international police power” Under Roosevelt, U.S. often intervened in Latin

America Roosevelt wanted to preserve “Open Door Policy”

with China T.R. won Nobel peace prize—Russia and Japan

Foreign Policy After T.R.

William Howard Taft: Elected 1908 Dollar Diplomacy

– invest in countries

U.S. reached height of international power under T.R. and Taft

Policies created enemies in Latin America and a growing international resentment of U.S. intervention

Woodrow Wilson: U.S. applied more moral and

legalistic standards to foreign policy

Drew U.S. into the complex Mexican Revolution

“Moral diplomacy” did not work well in Mexico

U.S.-Mexican relations were strained for many years

Debating Imperialism

Debating Imperialism

Anti-Imperialists Moral and political argument

– Expansion was a rejection of our nation’s founding principle of “liberty for all”

Racial argument– Imperialism just another form of racism

Economic argument– Expansion too costly

Maintaining military Laborers from other countries compete for jobs

Debating Imperialism cont’

Pro-Imperialists: new kind of frontier for U.S. expansion Keep America from losing competitive edge Access to foreign markets made economy

stronger “Great White Fleet” demonstrate U.S. naval

power to other countries

Imperialism Viewed from Abroad

Caribbean and Central America—U.S. defending governments unpopular with local inhabitants

“Yankee go home” Panamanians complained of discrimination Many countries turned to U.S. for help U.S. welcomed and rejected American government still struggles to reconcile its

great power and national interests with its relationships with other countries

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