Transcript The United States on the World Stage

The United States on the World Stage
Teddy Roosevelt: Hungry Expansionist
• Teddy Roosevelt was
excited to see the United
States become a major
player in world affairs.
• He greatly expanded the
power and foreign
influence of the Federal
Government
Review: The Monroe Doctrine
• President Monroe said that
the US would not allow
European Powers to colonize
newly independent nations in
the Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt Makes an addition
• The Roosevelt Corollary
• A statement that expanded
on the Monroe Doctrine
• The US had the right to
intervene in the Western
Hemisphere if a nation
was in trouble.
• Teddy Believed the United
States could Police the
Western hemisphere
Big Stick Diplomacy
The Panama Canal
• In order to enable US
ships to move more
quickly between the
Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, Roosevelt
envisioned a canal
across the isthmus of
Panama
A man, a plan, a canal- panama
• A Man: Teddy Roosevelt
• A Plan: Help the people of panama
win their independence from
Columbia…in return they let you
build a canal through their new
country.
• A Canal- Easy access for the United
States to it’s new pacific territories
The Russo-Japanese War
• A war between Japan and Russia
over the territories of Manchuria
and Korea threatened the
continued success of the Open
Door Policy in China
• After several Japanese victories
Roosevelt negotiated a peace
treaty between the two imperialist
nations.
Outcome: A New World Power is Born
• Russia’s defeat led to
internal trouble and 2
revolutions
• Japan began to rise as a
new world power
• Teddy got a Nobel Prize
William Howard Taft:
• Taft felt that Roosevelt’s policies had
Dollar Diplomacy
created too much Anti-American
hostility in Latin America
• Strategy: “Substitute dollars for
bullets”
• Dollar Diplomacy: Increase American
investment in foreign economies to
promote pro-American societies
Woodrow Wilson: Missionary Diplomacy
• Wilson renounced Taft’s Dollar
Diplomacy
• Missionary Diplomacy: It was the
role of the US to promote
democracy and moral progress in
the world.
• Made the promise to not “…seek
one additional foot of territory by
conquest.”
• …Except for Haiti. He wanted Haiti.
Trouble in Mexico
• Pancho Villa, an enemy of the
American-backed Mexican
government crossed the Rio
Grande and killed 19 people in
New Mexico
• Wilson nearly caused another
war between the USA and
Mexico when he sent 15,000
troops into Mexico to avenge the
American deaths
• The onset of WWI kept the US
out of the Mexican conflict