weee continued again with austin.Discuss the the development of the Panama Canal.colombia owned the panama canal. french started to build it, but they failed because diseases and it was very costly. spains guy looked into for ships.. US eventually got the control of it. gave US the right to build ..done in 1914, thousands of people died.. we also looked at others. in Nicarago.. time is money. faster trade... lead to hate, distrust in latin american countries.Discuss the following US foreign policies:Big Stick Diplomacy--"Speak softly but carry a big stick"The Big Stick Diplomacy was the idea of negotiating peacefully, but threatening with a ‘big stick’--teddy roosevelt said this many times throughout his lifestick represents authority- having a big good military; use your military to intimidate countries to get what we wanted.Roosevelt Corollary and Monroe Doctrine-introduced by james monroe, US gave a warning to the european countries to stay away from the western hemisphere, if they dont follow what we said, it could lead to warRoosevelt Corollary-was an amendment to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904 by President Theodore Roosevelt. This stated that the United States would now use force to protect its economic interests in Latin Americastated that if any nation was susceptible to European control, the U.S. had the right to get involved.Dollar Diplomacy- william taft, we tried to expand foreign policy in Latin America and East Asia by promising loans from American businesspeople to them---economic imperialism, invest a lot of money in that country. try to control their countries money--expanded to central america to protect the panama canal"substituting dollars for bullets.", we control them economically, and not militarilyMissionary Diplomacy - woodrow Wilson- the idea to not recognize any Latin America government that was seen as intimidating to America’s intentions. this was the first time the U.S. had ever failed to recognize a government.dont communicate much, dont get along well.MExicobox rebellion-chinese people to get foreiners out of their country- they felt they were trying to take over their countrytake china overgoal right away was to overthrow Empress Dowager Tsu Hsikilled hundreds of europeans, they atacked back and then they finally put down the box rebellion
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