American Imperialism
Asia and Latin America
Essential Question
- How can a desire for increased global trade impact the distribution of power and the authority of industrialized countries
Asia
Japan (1853-1854)
- How did Matthew Perry’s trip to Japan impact Japan?
- Japan began to trade with the US while they had previously been closed off to the west
China (1900)
- John Hay proposed the Open Door Policy which gave countries with spheres of influence in china trading rights
- Boxer Rebellion (1901) sought to end Western Influence within China as well as targeted Chinese Christians
Panama Canal
What did the US do that resulted in it building and controlling the Panama Canal?
- The United States provoked a revolution against Columbia and supported the rebelling Panaminians, which in return, gave us the right to build and control the Panama Canal Zone.
Latin America
Presidential Diplomacies Roosevelt
Roosevelt Corollary:
- This was an ammendment to the Monroe Doctrine. It stated that the US woul dintervene in Latin Americans affairs when necessary to meaintian peace and stability in the Western Hemisphere
Big Stick Diplomacy
- Assertion of US dominance via the Military (Navy)
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”
Presidential Diplomacies Taft
Dollar Diplomacy:
- The effort of the US to further its goals in Latin America through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries
Presidential Diplomacies Wilson
Moral Diplomacy
- The System in which support is only given to countries whose moral beliefs are similar to that of the democratic US