Foreign Policy 1901 1921 Presidents Roosevelt Taft and

Foreign Policy 1901 -1921

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

Big Stick Diplomacy • Big Stick Policy: President Theodore Roosevelt's strongarm approach to foreign affairs, emphasizing diplomacy backed by force

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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