America as a World Power

1. Roosevelt played the role of calming mediator between the two imperialist powers. With the help of Roosevelt, a fair deal was made betweeb Russia and Japan, resulting in peace.

2. America bought the project from the French for $40 million. The route allowed quick passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific through South America. America still had to deal with the Colombian government, who owned this land. The Colombian government denied access to the US, and the US organized a revolution, and then the canal was allowed to be built by the government of Panama.

3. The Roosevelt Corollary said that not only European powers should interfere with Latin America, but that America should therefore be the one to interfere.

4. Dollar Diplemency enforced the view that the US should hold influence over Latin American countries by giving America access to Nicaraguan banks and railroad systems in exchange for a loan to get them out of debt. This had angered the Nicaraguans, and the Roosevelt Corollary had sent in 2,000 marines to back Adolfo Diaz, the president of Nicaragua.

5. Wilson's philosophy of missionary diplomacy was a reason that Woodrow Wilson decided to invade Mexico, but there were also other reasons. He felt that he couldn't invade for only moral issues, so he waited for a legitimate reason to invade. Mexico had soon after arrested some US sailors, which is when Wilson decided to give imperialistic actions some thought. He decided later to invade Mexico, and the invasion began.

6. America had achieved multiple foreign policy goals around this time, and one of these was that the US achieved its responsibility to intervene with other powers. Roosevelt had showed this by the peace talks he had made to Russia and Japan. Another goal the US reached was that they were able to act as a world power, which they showed by adopting the ideas of a Roosevelt Corollary and mission diplomacy. A third goal America achieved was that the US was able to expand their power dramatically.