december 1st 2009

[4Danielle]

Andrea; Big stick diploma.It’s one of the foreign policies.It means to Speak softly but carry a big stick.It’s basically military powerExample where we used it: the Panama Canal, before we had control over it. Columbia had it before us. We said we would stand behind them if they declared independency.Columbia thought we were basically bullies.They didn’t like us very much at this time.Another example. Teddy Roosevelt sent a bunch of white ships, and made stops at a dozen ports around the world. Just to show that the U.S. was strong. To show off Americans power.Taft’s dollar diplomacy.-Menrow policy.When they wanted them to stay out of the western hemisphere.Dollar diplomacy, key word, dollar.William hard Taft. He was a progressive, ticked off a lot of people.He started it.We would invest in companies, like control there businesses. When you do that you basically control the country.“Substituting dollars for bullets”Stead of going to countries and shooting them.Mexico is a good example of dollar diplomacy.Last foreign policy.-President Wilson. Missionary diplomacyWe want to promote democracy in countries.We recently refused to recognize Taliban becauseWe refuse to recognize a country that is a bad government, unfriendly to u.s. or killed a leader in Mexico.Example; Mexico.Latin America had very unstable governments, in about a ten years time spand they had about six leaders.Ray; Mexico.1916 we invaded Mexico.We had taken half there land before that.Are issues with mexico.1910, diez was pro u.s.such as we controlled him.We took over there minds in mexico, and took over there mines. It didn’t benefit the common person of mexico at all.Huarta was overcome byBecause of him killing mildero.Example of ..The missionary diplomacy came to place. He refused to recognize milderos government.We invaded city of vericruise.Huarta finally loses a lot of his power because we didn’t want to recognize his gov.-Carranza, about 1913he became a pro u.s.Poncho villa, invited Americans to look at the mines, and then just killed them.Went back up to mexico and killed more Americans.We invade mexico with about 1500 soldiers.he sent someone down to find poncho villa.Poncho villa was a bad guy.World war one was bout to happen, so we went back to America.