Foreign Policy StrategiesAmerica Goes Forth

Focus Question: Explain how can you best get along

with your neighbors

The Debate over Imperialism Public opinion divided over Imperialism

Cut across all existing groups Sparked a furious debate

Rationale for Imperialism Drive for the U.S. to be an imperial

power Commerce National Security National Stature Export Democracy

Anti-Imperialist League Opposition Arose to Imperialism Anti-Imperialist League formed

Drew from all walks of lifeLabor and CapitalNorth and SouthCountry and City

Arguments of the League Unnecessary for trade

U.S. should focus on producingthe best

People would buy

U.S. would be drawn into foreign wars

Labor Colonial peoples would compete for U.S. jobs Wage levels would drop

Betrayed basic American ideals Ape European powers Turn our backs on the founders

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 Europeansto 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. could intervene

in Latin America

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