Imperial Diagram

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Foreign Policies

Countries Involves With

William McKinley

1896-1901

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Countries Involved With

Theodore Roosevelt

1901-1908

Foreign Policies

Countries Involved With

William Howard Taft

1909-1912

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Countries Involved With

Foreign Policies

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Wilson supported the Mexican rebel leader Francisco "Pancho" Villa

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Spanish-American War

Caused by failing to end the revolution in Cuba and was believed to have destroyed the USS Maine, a United States Navy Ship.

The United States won with only around 380 casualties from battle but around 2,620 soldiers died from disease

Treaty of Paris (December 1898)

the United States gained Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Pacific island of Guam.

Spain sold the Philippines for only $20 million

The United States were given resistance from the Filipins and lost ten times more troops than they did in the Spanish-American War

Secure Navy bases for the United States and coaling stations for its ships

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the United States won

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annexed Hawaii

Open Door Policy

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Definition: an American statement that the government did not want colonies in China, but favored free trade there

Woodrow Wilson

1913-1920

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Roosevelt intervened when Russia and Japan were at war in 1904 (Russo-Japanese War), and convinced them to sign a peace treaty.

Japan's and the United States relationship with each other was bad because of the anti-Asian sentiment on the West Coast of the United States.

Learning about the fact that Asian kids (Japanese, Chinese and Korean) were prohibited from attending the same public schools with white children, Japan became outraged.

Gentlemen's Agreement

end segregation between the White and Asian kids. In return, Japan will have to limit the emigration of its citizens to the United States.

Foreign Policy

Latin America

"Big Stick" Diplomacy

creating and using a strong military force to achieve American's goals when necessary

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bought Panama route for $40 million

US Navy gain control of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, increasing the US military security and protect its new territories and help oversea trading become easier and cheaper

Roosevelt Corollary

Updated Monroe Doctrine for an age of expansionism and economic influence

America would keep European intervention away from the Western Hemisphere and America would try to keep the peace between the two.

Latin America resented the United States as the hemisphere police force

Latin American countries could not govern themselves

Latin Americans disagreed with the Roosevelt

Dollar Diplomacy

Believed the US should invest in foreign economies to increase American influence

Continued with the foreign policy of less aggression

Worked for stability in Latin America and to expand economic opportunities in China

increase American investments in business and banks throughout Central America and the Caribbean.

maintain the Open Door policy in Asia

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Taft sent troops to Nicaragua in 1909 and 1912 to protect the formation of a pro-American government there

moral diplomacy

believed US should spread peace and democracy rather than colonize foreign countries

believed other governments should be self-governing

continued to use American military in Latin America, but wished to cultivate a friendship with them

Was supporting until Villa and his forces came to New Mexico and killed eighteen Americans and Woodrow Wilson sent forces to chase Villa's forces out of the US and fail to capture Villa.

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Declared war on Germany in April 1917 during World War I

Wilson sent 10,000 troops to Mexico for a "punitive expedition" but he ended it.