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AMERICAN HISTORY IIMR. HOOD07 APRIL 2014
10.4 AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER
AMERICAN HISTORY IIMR. HOOD`S NOTES07 APRIL 2014
KEY IDEA
THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR, THE PANAMA CANAL, AND THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION ADDED TO AMERICA`S MILTIARY AND ECONOMIC POWER.
WHY IT MATTERS NOW
AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN CONFLICTS AROUND 1900 LED TO
INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR I AND LATER TO A PEACEKEEPER ROLE IN
TODAY`S WORLD.
INTRODUCTION
WILLIAM MCKINLEY WAS
ASSASINATED
SHOT BY LEON CZOLGOSZ
THEODORE ROOSEVELT TOOK OVER PRESIDENCY
ROOSEVELT DIDN´T WANT EUROPE TO CONTROL WORLD
ROOSEVELT WANTED TO INCREASE AMERICAN
INFLUENCE
ROOSEVELT ASSUMED
ROLE OF WORLD LEADER
OBJECTIVE 1EXPLAIN HOW THEODORE ROOSEVELT´S FOREIGN
POLICY PROMOTED AMERICAN POWER
AROUND THE WORLD
RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA + JAPAN
COMPETING FOR CONTROL OF
KOREA
JAPAN SECURED KOREA AND
MANCHURIA
JAPAN APPROACHED PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
JAPAN WANTED PEACE DEAL WITH
RUSSIA
THEODORE ROOSEVELT BECAME A
PEACEMAKER
RUSSIA AGREED PEACE
GAVE UP KOREA + MACHURIA
ROOSEVELT WON 1906 NOBEL PEACE
PRIZE
FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN USA AND JAPAN WOULD
CONTINUE
PANAMA CANAL
MANY AMERICANS FELT THE USA NEEDED
CANAL
A CANAL THAT CUT THROUGH SOUTH
AMERICA
REDUCE TRAVEL TIME ATLANTIC + PACIFIC
OCEANS
SHORTEST ROUTE WAS THROUGH
PANAMA
BUT PANAMA WAS
UNDER COLUMBIA´S RULE
PANAMA DECLARED ITS
INDEPENDENCE
PANAMA WAS SUPPORTED
BY THE UNITED STATES
PANAMA SIGNED TREATY WITH THE UNITED STATES
THE USA COULD BUILD THE PANAMA
CANAL
IN RETURN FOR $10
MILLION + 250,000 ANNUAL RENT
CONSTRUCTION BEGAN 1904 ON “AN
ENGINEERING FEAT”
43, 300 WORKERS
AT HEIGHT OF CONSTRUCTION
MANY DIED THROUGH
ACCIDENTS + DISEASE
IN 1914 THE CANAL OPENED FOR
BUSINESS
ROOSEVELT
COROLLARY
MANY LATIN-AMERICAN
COUNTRIES HAD BORROWED MONEY
FROM EUROPE
ROOSEVELT FEARED DEFAULT
PAYMENTS
AND THOUGHT EUROPEAN INTERVENTION
INEVITABLE
BUT ROOSEVELT WANTED USA TO BE
DOMINANT FORCE
ROOSEVELT SUPPORTED MONROE
DOCTRINE
DOCTRINE: EUROPE STAYS OUT OF LATIN-AMERICAN
AFFAIRS
HE LATER ADDED THE ROOSEVELT
COROLLARY
USA WOULD
PROTECT LATIN-AMERICA
USA GUARANTEED LOANS MADE BY EUROPEANS TO LATIN-
AMERICANS
THIS WAS CALLED DOLLAR
DIPLOMACY
OBJECTIVE 2DESCRIBE HOW
WOODROW WILSON´S MISSIONARY DIPLOMACY
ENSURED U.S. DOMINANCE IN LATIN
AMERICA
MONROE DOCTRINE
INTERNATIONAL POLICE
ROOSEVELT COROLLARY
PROTECTED LATIN-AMERICA
WOODROW WILSON LATER BECAME
PRESIDENT
WILSON GAVE ROOSEVELT COROLLARY A
MORAL TONE
USA NOW HAD MORAL
RESPONSIBILITY
STOP OPPRESIVE
GOVERNMENTS IN LATIN-AMERICA
STOP UNDEMOCRATIC
GOVERNMENTS
OR STOP ANY HOSTILITY TOWARDS
USA
MEXICO PUT ROOSEVELT COROLLARY
TO TEST
PORFIRIO DIAZ OVERTHROWN
FRANCISCO I. MADERO TOOK THE
PRESIDENCY
BUT MADERO WAS KILLED BY GENERAL VICTORIANO HUERTA
WILSON REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE
HUERTA
WILSON CALLED IT
“A GOVERNMENT OF BUTCHERS”
SO WILSON AND THE UNITED STATES
INTERVENED
UNITED STATES AND MEXICO CLOSE
TO WAR
HUERTA REGIME COLLAPSED
ADIOS!
VENUSTIANO CARRANZA INSTALLED
AS PRESIDENT
WILSON RECOGNIZED
CARRANZA
BUT VILLA + ZAPATA OPPOSED
CARRANZA
INSPIRED NATIONALIST FEELINGS
IN MEXICO
VILLA FREQUENTLY
COURTED AID FROM USA
BUT WHEN WILSON RECOGNIZED
CARRANZA
DESPITE VILLA´S TALK OF FRIENDSHIP HE KILLED MANY
AMERICANS
WILSON ORDERED JOHN J. PERSHING TO CAPTURE
VILLA
DEAD OR ALIVE
15,000 US SOLDIERS
ENTERED MEXICO
UPSET MEXICANS
US AND MEXICAN TROOPS
CLASHED
CARRANZA DEMANDED
USA WITHDRAW
BOTH SIDES CAME CLOSE TO
WAR AGAIN
BOTH SIDES BACKED DOWN
AVERTED DUE TO WWI
OPRESSION CONTINUED IN MEXICO UNTIL
OBREGON
INVOLVEMENTS IN MEXICO ILLUSTRATED
US POLICY
WANTED DEMOCRACY IN LATIN-
AMERICA
EVEN THROUGH ARMED
INTERVENTION
AND EXPANDED FOREIGN
MARKETS
ENSURED DOMINANCE IN LATIN AMERICA