America as a World Power

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Russo-Japanese War

• 1904 - Tsar Nicholas II declared war on Japan

• Japan launches surprise attack on Russian fleet in Pacific– Second fleet destroyed too– Wins land battles in Korea and Manchuria

• Japan begins to run out of resources

Roosevelt the Peacemaker

• First meeting took place on Presidential Yacht

• Treaty of Portsmouth

• 1906 - Nobel Peace Prize

The Panama Canal• 1903 - Philippe Bunau-

Varilla sells private French company route (40 mill)

• Need Columbian Permission– Panamanian Rebellion– Nov. 3rd, 1903

Independence

• 10 Million– Plus annual rent of

250,000 for the land

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The Roosevelt Corollary

• Latin American nations develop debt

• Monroe Doctrine (1823)– Stay away Europe!

• Roosevelt Corollary– U.S. would use force to

protect its economic interests in Latin America

• Dollar Diplomacy– William H. Taft’s policy– Guarantee loans made to

foreign countries

Woodrow Wilson’s Missionary Diplomacy

• 1913 - U.S. had a moral responsibility to deny governments that were…– Oppressive– Undemocratic– Hostile

• The Mexican Revolution– Francisco Madero leads overthrow of

government, but is poor leader– Killed by General Victoriano Huerta– “Government of butchers” - Wilson

“Watchful Waiting”

• April 1914 - Americans accidentally arrested

• Huerta regime collapses– 1915 Wilson recognizes Venustiano

Carranza– Withdraw troops

Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata

• Opposed Carranza’s gov. (1916)– American engineers - invite turns deadly– 2 months later Pancho’s men kill 17

Americans

• Brigadier General John J. Pershing

• Troops clash in 1916– Facing war in Europe– Both sides back down