Chapter 27 Flashcards
Alfred Thayer Mahan
wrote the Influence of Sea Power Upon History about how all great countries have great navies. This influenced U.S. policy to create the Great White Fleet.
Valeriano Weyler
known as the Butcher, Spanish General who harshly treated Cubans in Cuba.
Enrique Dupuy de Lome
Spanish Ambassador who ridiculed Mckinley by calling him weak in a letter intended for Spain, but was intercepted and published by William Randolph Hearst. One of the causes of the Spanish American War
Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Riders, Roosevelt corollary
assistant Sec. of the Navy who left his post to be a member of the Rough Riders (with Leonard Wood) who fought during the Spanish American War. Later as President once the U.S. invested in and built the Panama Canal TR attached the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine-which stated all countries need to go through the U.S. if they wanted to talk to Latin America.
Great White Fleet, Big stick diplomacy, Russo Japanese War
GWF-16 major battle ships sent around the world to show U.S. military might under TR. This was a great example of Big Stick Diplomacy where other countries would back down once they saw how powerful we were. TR was also asked to intervene into the conflict in Manchuria which would end the Russo Japanese War and win TR the Nobel Peace Prize.
George Dewey
American Commodore in charge of the U.S. Navy while fighting and easily defeating the old wooden Spanish fleet in the Philippines during the Spanish American War.
Emilio Aguinaldo
-Filipino revolutionary that at first worked with the U.S. to remove the Spanish, then was upset the U.S. occupied the Philippines. Eventually had to be captured to put down an anti-U.S. rebellion.
William Howard Taft
TR had picked Taft as his heir apparent. Taft wins the Presidency and breaks up more trusts than TR including some TR thought were good trusts. Taft and TR would soon compete against each other for the Republican nomination.
John Hay, Open-door notes
Sec. of State Hay issued the Open Door Note/policy that all countries should have equal access to trade with China. As a result trade with America increased, but some in China like the Boxers disliked foreign influence
Reconcentration
Spanish camps designed to influence Cubans to adjust their lives to Spanish ways of life or else.
Jingoism
aggressive nationalism- U.S. was frustrated over the de Lome letter calling McKinley weak and Americans were ready to go to war
Imperialism
when a stronger country dominates weaker countries economically, politically, and militarily. U.S. now becomes an imperialistic power.
Guerrilla warfare
fighting using hit and run tactics like ambushes.
Spheres of influence
when a country is now spreading its influence wider and further
Teller amendment
promise to free Cuba once the Spanish were expelled
