2. Vocabulary List 12
-Sphere of Influence -Open Door Policy -Dollar Diplomacy -Guerillas -”The Boxers” (p 155)
-Monroe Doctrine -Roosevelt Corollary (p p 155)
-Pancho Villa (p 157)

3. New American Diplomacy
American Imperialism
New American Diplomacy

4. I. Background A) USA Major power in Asia 1900 World’s 3rd largest Navy
Exports to China quadrupled
B) Japan a Rising Power:
Defeats China to liberate Korea
Gains part of China in Treaty (Manchuria)
Russia, France & Germany force Japan Out of Manchuria (China)
West begins trying to split China into Spheres of Influence
Open Door Policy wins = China an independent state + All free to trade with it
C) Teddy helps end Russo-Japanese War - persuades Japan to stop seeking territory.

5. Spheres of Influence Map

6. I. Open Door Policy video

7. II. Boxer Rebellion
A) Chinese began to fight back. Want to rid of Foreigners
B) Boxers - practiced Martial Arts
Believed foreign bullets could not harm
Killed 200 foreigners + Christian Chinese Converts
C) Eight Nations - Britain, France, Germany, Japan, USA joined to free the countrymen.
Were not impervious to bullets…
Destroyed many Chinese

8. Boxer Rebellion pic

9. III. The Panama Canal
A) “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick” - Teddy Roosevelt
B) USA vs. Colombia
Panama was once a Colombian State
USA offered Colombia large sum of $$$ for rights to build Canal. Colombia refused.
USA sent Warships.
Panama then revolted against Colombia
signed treaty with USA
Canal belongs to Panama today
C) Canal very important - connects Atlantic to Pacific Ocean + Makes alot of $$$

10. Video on Panama Canal

11. IV. Roosevelt Corollary
A) Monroe Doctrine - USA will not let Western powers interfere with the Americas.
B) Roosevelt Corollary - Teddy Roosevelt
Military force to help nations pay their debts
Used in Venezuela and Dominican Republic
C) Dollar Diplomacy - William Howard Taft
Support Latin American industry with $$$
Want American Bankers making loans instead of EU Bankers
Used in Nicaragua

12. V. Mexican Revolution
A) 1913 Right Wing Leader takes over Mexico (Huerta) after 30 year rule of Porfirio Diaz (a dictator)
USA does not like Huerta
B) USA (under Woodrow Wilson) helps arm a coup d’etat (President Carranza). Mexicans are not happy.
C) 1916 anti-American Guerillas against Carranza begin burning American towns
Kill 20 Americans
Pancho Villa never found
World laughs at Woodrow Wilson

13. Death Mask Video

14. Next Class
Test!!!! Yikes!