Imperial Diagram
Foreign Policies
Countries Involves With
William McKinley
1896-1901
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Theodore Roosevelt
1901-1908
Foreign Policies
Countries Involved With
William Howard Taft
1909-1912
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Foreign Policies
Wilson supported the Mexican rebel leader Francisco "Pancho" Villa
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
the United States won
annexed Hawaii
Open Door Policy
Definition: an American statement that the government did not want colonies in China, but favored free trade there
Woodrow Wilson
1913-1920
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
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
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.
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.