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Monday- Haley finished her part of our presentation.

Group 6- Diplomacies

Monroe Doctorine-

Foreign Policy
- Created Seperate Spheres of European and American Influence
Written by Preisednt James Monroe and Secretary of State John Adams
Four Main Points-
- US would remain nuteral in European Affairs
- US would not interfere with Existing Colonies
- Western Hemisphere was closed to future Colonization
- US would concider a hostile act if any European nation tried to interfere in the Western Nation

"Speak softly and carry a BIG STICK; you will go far."

Theordore Roosevelt
- Popularized Big Stick Diplomacy
First occured in privated letter to Henry Sprague
Became famous at Minnesota State Fair
Define
- A policy of carefully mediated negotiation supported by unspoken threat of Military
Expanded US influence in Cuba

Dollar Diplomacy

William Howard Taff
American Foreign Policy to further aims in Latin America and Eat Asia
- Use of economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries
Charecterized as "substituting dollars for bullets"
Used in Nicaragua
- Dominican Republic
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Liberia
- China
Abandoned in 1913
- Taft Administration
Failed to creat economic power and political stablity
Failed to stem wave of revolution
Taft's dollar diplomacy failed to make profits for American buisnesses
US had to send troops to protect American invesments

Missionary Diplomacy-

Expanson of Monroe Doctorine
Woodrow Wilson's idea that the US should refuse recognizion of hostile governments
Imperialism
Latin American Countries
Practices of the US in Mexico, Central America, and Carribeans
US failed to recognize any goverment since the Confederacy
Wilson tested his first Latin America diplomacy in Mexico
Mexico-

Tuesday-

Missionary Diplomacy (Cont.)-

Roosevelt Corollary-

1904- Addition to Monroe Doctorine
US intervined to keep European countries from intervening
- when they don't get debt payments
Roosevelt was like a police officer
- between Europe and Latin American Countries
Passed after Venezula crisis
- Blockade against Venezula
  - By Uk, Germany, Italy
- Over President Ci[riano Castro's refusal to pay debts
Dominican Republic
- 1904- Dominican indebtness to other nations
  - Mainly European
  - $32 Million
  - Payments were slow or nonexistent
The Roosevelt Corollary stated
- European powers would not be allowed to collect debts by force
  - Owed to them by Latin American nations

Panama Canal-

We talked about the test.

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