Foreign Policy StrategiesAmerica Goes Forth

Focus Question:

• Explain how can you best get along with your neighbors

Relationship with Latin America• The U.S. has to rethink foreign policy strategy• Prior strategy: Neutrality in world affairs• Monroe Doctrine (1823)• U.S. won’t allow Europeans

to reestablish coloniesin the Americas

Theodore Roosevelt• TR was an ardent nationalist• Disciple of Mahan’s theories of Naval supremacy• Promoted Imperialism

“Big Stick” Diplomacy• West African Proverb “Speak Softly and Carry a

Big Stick• Use the military to meet foreign policy aims• The Navy as the “Big Stick”• Panama and the Canal Zone

Roosevelt Corollary• Latin American nations in debt to Europeans• Europeans threatened to intervene• U.S. occupied several nations to force repayment

• The U.S. reserved the right to intervene in Latin American affairs

William Howard Taft• Trained as a lawyer• Served as a federal judge• Military Governor of the Philippines

“Dollar Diplomacy”• Use trade and investment in conducting policy• U.S. firms invest heavily into Latin America• Look to the U.S. to protect investments• U.S. uses economic pressure to meet aims

Woodrow Wilson• Son and grandson of Presbyterian ministers• Trained as an academic• President of Princeton University• Governor of New Jersey

Moral Diplomacy• U.S. to set an example to the world• Set a moral tone to policies• Promote democracy in Latin America

• Self-government in the Philippines• Voting rights in Puerto Rico

Mexico• Moral Diplomacy tested by Mexico• 1913: Mexican government overthrown by Huerta• Huerta promised to protect U.S. investments•Wilson refused to recognize the Huerta regime

• U.S. lent support to Carranza in 1914• Huerta fled the country

Summary

• In a short response of one to two sentences, describe one important thing learned in class today.