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1 Foreign Policy

2 Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson carried out foreign policies they believed would advance American interests.

3 Big Stick Diplomacy Big Stick Policy: President Theodore Roosevelt's strong- arm approach to foreign affairs, emphasizing diplomacy backed by force

4 TR wanted to make the United States a great power that could exert influence around the world. He believed that the country must meet any challenge to its national interest abroad.

5 Roosevelt Corollary (to the Monroe Doctrine)
President Theodore Roosevelt's assertion that, as a direct corollary of the Monroe Doctrine, the United States could intervene to preserve peace and order in the Western Hemisphere and protect U.S. interests

6 Dollar Diplomacy President William Howard Taft's approach to foreign policy, focusing on encouraging and protecting U.S. trade and investment in Latin America and Asia Taft believed that a strong economic presence abroad would advance American interests.

7 Moral Diplomacy President Woodrow Wilson's approach to foreign policy, focusing on promoting democratic ideals abroad President Woodrow Wilson rejected “dollar diplomacy for “moral diplomacy”, or using persuasion and American ideals to advance U.S. interest. In other words by Nurturing constitutional governments

8 Wilson and the Mexican Revolution
When General Victoriano Huerta, overthrew Mexico’s democratically elected president and had him killed, President Wilson refused to recognize what he called "a government of butchers“ and promoted democracy.  Wilson sent troops to Veracruz, Mexico, a port on the Gulf of Mexico, to keep weapons from reaching Huerta's army. Wilson believed the right thing to do was to send in U. S. troops to help restore democracy. Wilson saw the United States as the Lord’s vehicle to show the world the blessings of democracy and constitutionalism Mexico and other Latin American nations saw it as Yankee imperialism.

9 How did the League of Nations reflect President Wilson’s ideas about foreign policy


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