1. The United States on the World Stage
Imperialist Presidents
Progressive Presidents

2. Teddy Roosevelt: Hungry Expansionist
Teddy Roosevelt was excited to see the United States become a major player in world affairs.
He greatly expanded the power and foreign influence of the Federal Government

3. Review: The Monroe Doctrine
President Monroe said that the US would not allow European Powers to colonize newly independent nations in the Western Hemisphere

4. Roosevelt Makes an addition
The Roosevelt Corollary
A statement that expanded on the Monroe Doctrine
The US had the right to intervene in the Western Hemisphere if a nation was in trouble.
Teddy Believed the United States could Police the Western hemisphere

5. Big Stick Diplomacy

6. The Panama Canal
In order to enable US ships to move more quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Roosevelt envisioned a canal across the isthmus of Panama

7. A man, a plan, a canal- panama
A Man: Teddy Roosevelt
A Plan: Help the people of panama win their independence from Columbia…in return they let you build a canal through their new country.
A Canal- Easy access for the United States to it’s new pacific territories

8. The Russo-Japanese War
A war between Japan and Russia over the territories of Manchuria and Korea threatened the continued success of the Open Door Policy in China
After several Japanese victories Roosevelt negotiated a peace treaty between the two imperialist nations.

9. Outcome: A New World Power is Born
Russia’s defeat led to internal trouble and 2 revolutions
Japan began to rise as a new world power
Teddy got a Nobel Prize

10. William Howard Taft: Dollar Diplomacy
Taft felt that Roosevelt’s policies had created too much Anti-American hostility in Latin America
Strategy: “Substitute dollars for bullets”
Dollar Diplomacy: Increase American investment in foreign economies to promote pro-American societies

11. Woodrow Wilson: Missionary Diplomacy
Wilson renounced Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy
Missionary Diplomacy: It was the role of the US to promote democracy and moral progress in the world.
Made the promise to not “…seek one additional foot of territory by conquest.”
…Except for Haiti. He wanted Haiti.

12. Trouble in Mexico
Pancho Villa, an enemy of the American-backed Mexican government crossed the Rio Grande and killed 19 people in New Mexico
Wilson nearly caused another war between the USA and Mexico when he sent 15,000 troops into Mexico to avenge the American deaths
The onset of WWI kept the US out of the Mexican conflict