HIS 315L Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Serbian Nationalism, First Red Scare, Monroe Doctrine
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Us interventions: caribbean, columbia panama canal. Saves time and money: roosevelt corollary (to monroe doctrine) Roosevelt announced that he wanted everyone to know that the us wasn"t colonizing but no one else should think about doing that. The door is closed to european attempts: latin america. We don"t claim the dominican repub as a colony but we influence how they rule more and more americans had commercial interest in latin american countries. We functioned as an overlord: pres taft used dollar diplomacy, japan appeared to the us to be more and more interest in dominating the far east. Follows the us in creating their own doctrine. Pres wilson did not want the pres of mexico to stay pres. European nations have been arming themselves; building up navy, army, new weapons have to protect imperial interests. Led to alliances: central powers- germany austria and. Hungary; triple powers: allied powers(england france russia) If someone invades me, you come to our assistance.
