History 1BB3: America and the World: The Twentieth Century

Dr. Stephen M. Streeter

McMaster University, Winter 2002

 

Rise of U.S. Hegemony in Latin America

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I. U.S. Interests in Latin America

1. private investments
2. trade
3. strategic

Guantánomo Bay (1898)
Panama Canal Treaty (1903)

4. missionaries

II. U.S. Policy Instruments

foreign policy elite

U.S. Presidents	U.S. Secretary of State
*Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909	John Hay, 1898-1905 Elihu Root, 1905-1909
William Howard Taft, 1909-1913	*Philander Knox, 1909-1913
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921	William Jennings Bryan, 1913-1915
Waren Harding, 1921-1923	Charles E. Hughes, 1921-1925
Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929	Frank B. Kellogg, 1925-1929
Herbert C. Hoover, 1929-1933	*Henry L. Stimson, 1929-1933
*Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945	Cordell Hull, 1933-1944

 

Monroe Doctrine (1823)

1. noncolonization of the Western Hemisphere by European nations

2. nonintervention by Europe in the affairs of independent New World nations

3. noninterference by the United States in European Affairs, including Europe's remaining New World colonies

 

III. Big Stick Era (1989-1932)

Roosevelt Corollary (1904)

Dollar Diplomacy

 

IV. Good Neighbor Policy (1933-45) (text of FDR's speech)

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