Chapter 19Safe for Democracy:The United States and World War I, 1916–1920

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•Please answer the following question:

• If you had to guess, how many times did the U.S. intervene in the affairs of Latin American countries since 1900?

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 19.3 Colonial Possessions, 1900

An Era of Intervention

•“I Took the Canal Zone”• Teddy Roosevelt• Progressive Presidents expanded government power abroad, too

•Mostly in the Western Hemisphere• Monroe Doctrine

• Panama Canal• Helped Panama separate from Colombia• U.S. received right to construct and operate canal in the “canal zone”• complete in 1914

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 19.1 The United States in The Caribbean, 1898-1934

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 19.2 The Panama Canal Lone

An Era of Intervention

•The Roosevelt Corollary• Add- on to Monroe Doctrine• U.S. right to exercise “int’l police power” in the Western

Hemisphere.• Not just to prevent European interference, but forcibly intervene

whenever it deemed necessary

Roosevelt Taft

Invaded D.R. (1904)

Sent troops to Cuba (1909)

Sent Marines to Nicaragua (1912)

Dollar Diplomacy in Honduras, D.R., and even Liberia

An Era of Intervention•M

oral Imperialism• Woodrow Wilson• Believed that U.S. had a duty to instruct other nations in democracy• Right to trade freely with foreign markets

• Sent Marines to Haiti (1915) and D.R. in 1916• Stayed in latter until 1934 & the former until 1924

•Wilson and Mexico• 1911 revolution • Francisco Madero• Overthrew longstanding dictatorship

• W/o Wilson’s knowledge, the U.S. supported the assassination Madero• Minor war broke out and Wilson eventually sent troops into northern

Mexico to quell hostilities.