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Post war foreign policy

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  1. imperialism

2. uphold Monroe doctrine

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Ante-Bellum foreign policy

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  1. isolation from Europe

2. Uphold Monroe doctrine

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Factors encouraging imperialism

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  1. economics
  2. yellow press
  3. religion
  4. social Darwinism
  5. captain Alfred Mahan
    - navy is key to power
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Alaska

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U.s. Squires from Russia

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Hawaii

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#1 crop = sugar 
#1 customer = USA 
NE missionaries were first Americans to move to Hawaii
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Last queen of Hawaii

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Liliuokalani

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McKinley tariff effects

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Raises taxes on foreign sugar

Missionarie boys overthrow Hawaiian government and create a new one

Immediately request annexation from USA

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First governor of Hawaii

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Stanford Dole (fruit master)

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Samoa

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Both US and Germant want Pago Pago

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Pan Am Conference

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Goal: become #1 trading partners w/ Latin America

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Venezuela

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Gold discovered along border of Venezuela and British Ghana

Am get involved due to Monroe doctrine in fear that Britain may invade Venezuela.
Resulting in arbitration to see who gets the gold.
After this Britain tries to improve relations with the USA

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Spanish - American war

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Cuba = sugar based economy 
#1 customer = USA 
Am raises tax on sugar which destroyed Cuban economy 
Rebellions start
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Weyler

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Branded as butcher by am press

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De lôme

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Newspaper prints letter written by him talking about McKinley being weak.
American public is outraged

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U.s. Maine

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Explodes in Havana harbor and US blames Spain.

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Teller amendment

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Cuba must be independent
Spanish must go
Gives pres authority to use force
US promises to annex Cuba

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Emilio Aquinaldo

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Philippine leader
U.S and Filipinos take over Manila
US decides to keep Philippines for itself

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Wm Shafter

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In charge of Cuba for America

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Rough riders

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Commander - Leonard wood

2nd in command - Teddy Roosevelt

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Santiago

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Battle of El Caney

  1. Kettle Hill
  2. San Juan Hill
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Santiago

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Admiral Pascal Cervera

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Treaty of Paris 1899

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Cuba gains independence

U.S. Gains Philippines Guam and Puerto Rico

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Positive results of the war

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  1. Helped heal wounds between north and south

2. U.S. Becomes a world power in the Far East

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Constitutional Problem from war

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Does U.S. Constitution apply to colonies?

- NO

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First governor of the Philippines

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William Taft

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Hague Conference

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Tsar Nicholas ll

Goal: reduce size of the worlds armies

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Sec of state John Hay

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Open door policy

- Garuntee American access to Chinese markets

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Boxer rebellion

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Boxers want to kill all foreigners

Boxers are defeated by multi-national army

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Hay-Pauncefote treaty

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Britain surrenders rights to build a canal in panama to US

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Hay-Bunaw-Varilla treaty

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U.S gains right to build a canal in Panama

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Morroco

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Ian taken hostage for ransom

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Dominican Republic

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Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe doctrine

  • U.S has a moral mandate to intervene and force the Latin am countries to pay their debts
  • U.S. Sends in trooped
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Russo-Japanese war

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-Fighting for controll of Manchuria and Korea

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Tsushima Straits

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Japanese wipeout Russian Armada

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Portsmouth Peace Conference

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  • Treaty is made between Russia and Japan.
  • Teddy Roosevelt wins peace prize
  • Japan and U.S become rivals in the pacific.
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Taft-Katsura agreement

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U.s recognizes Japanese controll of Korea

Jap recognize am controll of Philippines

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Gentlemens agreement

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Dealt w Japanese immigration to the US

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Root-takahira agreement

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Japanese agree to respect open door policy in china

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