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WARM UP
• Use the same piece of
Notebook paper from the
first vocab words.
• What do the following
words mean? Write
definitions down in your own
words.
• You may use your phone or
a dictionary to look up
words you don’t know.
• Diplomacy
• Involvement
• Contribute
RISE TO WORLD POWER
(1890-1920)
DAY 3: AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER
AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER
A. Russo-Japanese
War
• Roosevelt acted as a
mediator and peace
negotiator of the Treaty
of Portsmouth between
Russia and Japan. He
helped bring the war to
an end with no U.S.
military involvement.
• He was granted the
1906 Nobel Peace
Prize.
AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER
• Panama Canal
• U.S. influenced Panama to rebel against Columbia for
independence in order to gain access to build a canal.
Changed trading patterns and military strategies
worldwide.
AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER
• Panama Canal (gave
quick and easy
access to both the
Pacific and Atlantic
Oceans)
• U.S. paid Panama 10
million and 250,000 rent
each year
• 43,400 workers from all
over
• 5600 workers died from
disease
• total cost 380 million
LOCK SYSTEM
AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER
• Human factors – United States
supported a revolution in
Panama in the early 1900s. The
U.S. was permitted to build the
canal and control a zone of 5
miles on each side of the canal
(known as the Canal Zone). The
division of the country into two
parts by the U.S. territory
caused tension throughout the
20th Century. President Jimmy
Carter signed a treaty to return
the Canal area to Panama on
December 31, 1999.
AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER
• Physical factors – the 48-mile international
waterway allows ships to pass between the Atlantic
Ocean and Pacific Ocean, saving about 8,000
miles from a journey around the southern tip of
South America (Cape Horn).
DISCUSSION QUESTION
The buying of land, construction of the canal, and
completion of the canal was mainly done by the
United States. How did the Panama Canal impact
the relationship between the United States and the
politics of the region?
The United States became more involved with the
politics of the region!
AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER
• Theodore Roosevelt – “Rough Rider”
• Roosevelt Corollary – This
during the Spanish American War;
was added to the Monroe
expansionist policies as President
Doctrine. The U.S. would use
increased the U.S. role in Latin
force to protect its
America and the world; reasserted
economic interest in Latin
the Monroe Doctrine (Helped
America.
America to be recognized as a world
power)
AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER
• Dollar Diplomacy – Taft
encouraged investment
by U.S. banks/businesses
in Latin America and Far
East; promised military
protection to those who
invested abroad; WWI
reoriented the priorities of
the emerging world
power and U.S. foreign
policy makers returned to
a goal of
isolationism…except
when it came to Latin
America.
AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER
• Woodrow Wilson –
“missionary
diplomacy” The U.S.
had a moral
responsibility to deny
recognition to any
Latin American
government it
viewed as oppressive,
undemocratic, or
hostile to U.S.
interests.
CRITICAL WRITING QUESTION #3
• Day 3: What does the Roosevelt Corollary and the
Dollar Diplomacy has in common? What is the
difference?
AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER
• After the Panama Canal Play and Exit Ticket
• Panama Canal Video
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uPCQy32tGg
• (49:24)