HIST 2340W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Worldwar Series, Through The Ashes Of Empires, Sony Music Entertainment
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09/05/2019 - us diplomatic history fall 2019 professor hershberg. Chapter 2: managing, policing and extending the empire, 1900-1914. 11/18/1903, hay and bunau-varilla signed a new treaty in which the united states would build, fortify, and operate a canal linking the atlantic and pacific oceans. Washington also guaranteed the independence of the republic in panama . The taking of panama symbolized the new activism characteristic of american foreign policy after the spanish-american-cuban-filipino war, and construction of the canal deepened us influence over latin america. => accelerated washington"s participation in the global contest for empire. In the context of european alliances consolidated and foreshadowing a world-war, Roosevelt and his predecessor thought it appropriate to expand us empire. Teddy roosevelt thought that armed-conflict was the best expression of anglo-saxon superiority, and centralized foreign-policy decision-making => shape american foreign-policy before wwi (they were mainly quasi-aristocracy, affluent, cosmopolitan).
