Transcript US Foreign Policy 1890 - 1917

US Foreign Policy 1890 - 1917
Important Basics
• Manifest Destiny
• Monroe Doctrine
• Open Door Policy
Spanish American War
• Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• 1898 McGinley administration humbled the
Spanish
• Puerto Rico Annexed
• Cuba became a protectorate
• Repeated interventions in the “US Lake”
Pacific Expansion
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The Pacific ocean is considered in two ways
“Open door” - Asia
Naval expeditions to Japan and Korea
Washington demanded voice in economic and
political future of China
• 1900 – Troops sent to Northern China to
restore order
First steps in Europe
• Seizure of colonies makes US look similar to Imperial
Europe
• Began to become entangled in European alliances and
rivalries
• 1905 – Theodore Roosevelt offers to mediate between
France and Germany in dispute over Morocco
• Then offers to mediate in Russo-Japanese conflict.
• Begins to create common thoughts with Britain
• Begins to create tensions with Germany