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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