Treaties, Agreements & Deals
This Amendment stated that the United States would not get involved with Cuban Affairs after the S.A.W.
What is the Teller Amendment
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick (NAVAL INFLUENCE)
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
It was the moral responsibility of western/ Christian/ industrialized nations to support and influence others to reach the same feats. (Nationalism/ Cultural Superiority)
What is: White Man's Burden
REMEMBER ME! This battleship sank in the Havana Harbor ushering the United States immediate intervention against Spain after journalists blamed them for an attack:
What is: The Maine
Wilson's original policy to avoid overseas conflicts to continue domestic progressive issues and avoid loss of life/ military intervention.
This Amendment (not constitutional) would contradict and overturn the Teller Amendment by stating the U.S. would manage Cuban affairs when necessary and prevent Cuba from signing any other Foreign Treaties.
What is: The Platt Amendment.
CHINA! Secretary of State John Hay sends a letter to European Nations recommending allowing the U.S. to enter the trade market inside their SPHERES OF INFLUENCE without causing tension.(Leave us alone and we'll do the same)
Who is: Andrew Carnegie
I was the President who was called out in the De Lome Letter and the President who technically began the U.S. imperialism era (era era ay). (It's not who you think it is.... he was fighting)
Who is: William McKinley
The Lusitania, Falada, and other commercial, and passenger vessels will be targeted on the high seas in the Atlantic military strategy implemented by Germany:
What is: Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Ended the Spanish American war and ceded multiple new territories over to America from Spanish possession.
What is: The Treaty of Paris
The Roosevelt Corollary will reinvigorate this foreign policy from a President in the early 1800's. (Europe- stay out of the Western Hemisphere, we've got it)
What is: The Monroe Doctrine
This economic strategy ended up working against the U.S. by overly relying on Domestic markets and slowing international trade in the late 1800's:
What is: Tariffs
Fighting occurred in these two separate spanish territories:
DAILY DOUBLE: WWI would occur between this 4 year window: while the U.S. wouldn't intervene until _____________
(1914-1918)/ 1917
After U.S. intervention in Haiti due to political violences, potential German influence, and economic instability, this deal will be signed between the two nations.
Instead of using bullets and the navy (which he ultimately will) this President will attempt to use Economic loans and investments as way to influence local nations and build stability.
Who is: William H. Taft
Guam, Hawaii, Nicaragua, The Philippines would all provide the United States the ability to "park the bus" and enforce the "Big Stick" Policy: what pro-imperialism argument is this?
What is: Navy bases/ Military Expansion
On top of the Destruction of a certain U.S. naval ship, provide (3) causes as to WHY the United States would go to war with Spain in 1898:
De Lome Letter
Investment in Cuban Sugar plantations
Monroe Doctrine
Yellow Press
Sympathy for Cuban Revolutionaries
Opportunity to display Military might
Pushin P: provide (3) reasons why the U.S. became so heavily involved in domestic Propaganda efforts
Enlistment
Vilify Germans/ Central Powers
Selling War Bonds
Justify Intervention/ Promote Support for War
The Knox Castrillo Convention ended Tension with the U.S. and this foreign nation: U.S. provides loans, controls finances and receives a Navy base
What is Nicaragua
Moral Diplomacy: Only supporting nations with similar democratic values and ideals.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
The notion that the United States was 'unique' from European powers and did not need to engage in Imperialistic policies:
What is: American Exceptionalism
While this wasn't apart of the S.A.W- this conflict would begin immediately after the U.S. took control of this former Spanish colony
Philippine Conflict
This would ultimately force the German military to take drastic naval actions against Allied commercial vessels in the Atlantic. (What pushed Germany to U.S.W.)
What is: Naval Blockade from England