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Progressive Era Foreign Policy. Roosevelt: The Canal Taft: Dollar Diplomacy Wilson: WWI. Foreign Policy: Roosevelt & Taft. Panama Canal: Panama revolts from Columbia Huge engineering feat: cost $350 million to build 99 years lease, $10m, $250K year rent. (1914)
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Progressive Era Foreign Policy Roosevelt: The Canal Taft: Dollar Diplomacy Wilson: WWI
Foreign Policy: Roosevelt & Taft • Panama Canal: Panama revolts from Columbia • Huge engineering feat: cost $350 million to build • 99 years lease, $10m, $250K year rent. (1914) • Roosevelt Corollary: Monroe Doctrine extended, • Latin America must be financially responsible or • America will intervene to prevent Europe entry. • Russo-Japan War:TR Peace Treaty at Portsmouth, NH • (Taft-Katsura Agreement 1905 violated Open Door Policy) • TR’s Great White Fleet: sails around the world • Taft: Dollar Diplomacy- US Banks will take over • Loans if L.A. country can’t pay its European debts
Wilson’s Foreign Policy • New idealistic rhetoric: same policy • WW intervenes in Nicaragua, Haiti, • Dominic Republic, Cuba and Mexico • Mexico Revolution1913: Diaz, Madera • Huerta (WW didn’t recognized), Carranza • Veracruz intervention: Stop German ships • Poncho Villa chased by Pershing
The Great War: Causes • The Spark: Austrian archduke Ferdinand • Assassinated in Sarajevo 28 June 1914 • Ethnic nationalism: pan Serbianism • Colonial Rivalries: Imperialistic competition • Entangling Alliances: • Central Powers: Germany, Aust-Hun, Turkey • Allies: Britain, France, Russia, Italy • War Plans: Schlieffen plan • War started August 1: 32 nations in global war
Wilson: Neutrality • Neutrality: Int. Law, US can ship non • Military goods to both sides. • Shipping: US made big money on exports • Britain cut off Germany, Germany used U-boats • Divided Alliance in America: Progressives like • Jane Addams against the war, most people leaned • Towards Britain and France. • U-Boats: Lusitania sunk (May 1915) • WW warns Germany to stop • Arabic Sunk, Arabic Pledge • Sussex Sunk, Sussex Pledge- Germany promised • WW that they would stop shooting ships if US would • Tell Britain to end embargo
America Enters the War • Election of 1816: Hughes v. Wilson • GOP: Charles Evan Hughes, NY progressive, “preparedness” • Wilson: “He kept us out of the war.” • Very patriotic campaign, WW wins • WW “Peace without Victory” speech • New German U-Boat Policy: sink all ships • In order to starve Britain • Zimmerman Letter: Mexico telegram • Congress Declares War: 2 April 1917