1. America as a World Power

2. What are we studying today?

3. What is Dollar Diplomacy?

4. A PERSONAL VOICE JOSEPH BUCKLIN BISHOP
“ The Canal Zone was a land of the fantastic and the unexpected. No one could say when the sun went down what the condition of the Cut would be when [the sun] rose. For the work of months or even years might be blotted out by an avalanche of earth or the toppling over of a mountain of rock. It was a task to try men’s souls; but it was also one to kindle in them a joy of combat and a faith in ultimate victory which no disaster could shake.”
—quoted in The Impossible Dream: The Building of the Panama Canal

5. What is the author expressing?

6. Why does Teddy Roosevelt become president?

7. Why do Japan and Russia go to war?

8. Why do Americans want the PANAMA CANAL?

9. What are the two locations for the canal?

10. Why could the events described be seen as imperialistic?

11. What were obstacles in building the Panama Canal?

12. What is are positive and negative consequences of the Panama Canal?

13. Why would a debt crisis cause likely intervention by Europeans?

14. What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

15. Why do Nicaraguans revolt?

16. What is Wilson’s Missionary Diplomacy

17. Why does Wilson’s Missionary Diplomacy encourage more democratic governments?

18. What areas did Americans have an interest in Mexico?

19. Why does the United States refuse to recognize the government of Huerta?

20. Why does the United States invade Vera Cruz?

21. Why do American troops withdraw from Vera Cruz?

22. Who were Villa and Zapata?

23. Who was John Pershing?

24. Why does Wilson withdraw troops from Mexico?

25. How does the United States become a World Power?