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Causes of American Imperialism
- desire for raw materials and new markets
-yellow journalism
-desire to spread American democratic and moral ideas
Consequences of American Imperialism
-Annexation of Hawaii
-Spanish American War (Teller Platt and Foraker Acts)
-Philippine Insurrection
-Roosevelt Corollary - a corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S.might intervene in the affairs of an American
republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country.
-Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President in 1901.
Roosevelt was an imperialist who envisioned the Panama Canal.
This would serve the US military and economic interests by allowing ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans without having to go around South America. The Colombian government would not allow the US to do this project, but later the Panamanian people revolted against the Colombians. The US backed this revolt and in return, the Panamanians allowed the US to create the Panama Canal. It was finished in 1914.
Interventionists or Non-Interventionists
Alfred T. Mahan discussed the concept that countries with greater naval power will have greater worldwide impact in his piece - "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History"
Mark Twain - Member of the Anti-Imperialist League
http://www.peacehost.net/WhiteStar/Voices/twain.htmlhttp://www.peacehost.net/WhiteStar/Voices/twain.html
Senator Albert Beveridge - gave speech on Senate floor strongly urging the President and his fellow senators to embrace imperialism
Theodore Roosevelt - encouraged the US to enter the Spanish-American War and led a group known as the Rough Riders into battle, helped the US create the Panama Canal
- desire for raw materials and new markets
-yellow journalism
-desire to spread American democratic and moral ideas
Consequences of American Imperialism
-Annexation of Hawaii
-Spanish American War (Teller Platt and Foraker Acts)
-Philippine Insurrection
-Roosevelt Corollary - a corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S.might intervene in the affairs of an American
republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country.
-Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President in 1901.
Roosevelt was an imperialist who envisioned the Panama Canal.
This would serve the US military and economic interests by allowing ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans without having to go around South America. The Colombian government would not allow the US to do this project, but later the Panamanian people revolted against the Colombians. The US backed this revolt and in return, the Panamanians allowed the US to create the Panama Canal. It was finished in 1914.
Interventionists or Non-Interventionists
Alfred T. Mahan discussed the concept that countries with greater naval power will have greater worldwide impact in his piece - "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History"
Mark Twain - Member of the Anti-Imperialist League
http://www.peacehost.net/WhiteStar/Voices/twain.htmlhttp://www.peacehost.net/WhiteStar/Voices/twain.html
Senator Albert Beveridge - gave speech on Senate floor strongly urging the President and his fellow senators to embrace imperialism
Theodore Roosevelt - encouraged the US to enter the Spanish-American War and led a group known as the Rough Riders into battle, helped the US create the Panama Canal
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Imperialism & WWI Notes
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Why did the US remain neutral originally?
US.27 Justify with supporting detail from the text (USE THE PRIMARY SOURCES. Quote from it, reference it, pull out key words, stats, and facts, and then analyze and evaluate it.),
the reasons for American entry into WWI,
including the use of unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans,
the Zimmerman Note,
the defense of democracy,
and economic motivations.
- Why did the U.S. stay neutral at the outbreak of WWI?
- Why did the U.S. decide to enter the war?
- Evaluate the switch from isolationism to interventionism and explain if this was the best decision.
Defense of Democracy -
Making the World “Safe for Democracy”: Woodrow Wilson Asks for Warhttp://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4943/
Zimmerman Telegram -
The Zimmermann TelegramBackground Between 1914 and the spring of 1917, the European nations engaged in a conflict that became known as World War I. While armies moved across the face of Europe, the United States remained neutral. In 1916 Woodrow Wilson was elected President for a second term, largely because of the slogan "He kept us out of war." Events in early 1917 would change that hope. In frustration over the effective British naval blockade, in February Germany broke its pledge to limit submarine warfare. In response to the breaking of the Sussex pledge, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Germany.
In January of 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. This message helped draw the United States into the war and thus changed the course of history. The telegram had such an impact on American opinion that, according to David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers, "No other single cryptanalysis has had such enormous consequences." It is his opinion that "never before or since has so much turned upon the solution of a secret message." In an effort to protect their intelligence from detection and to capitalize on growing anti-German sentiment in the United States, the British waited until February 24 to present the telegram to Woodrow Wilson. The American press published news of the telegram on March 1. On April 6, 1917, the United States Congress formally declared war on Germany and its allies.
The story of British intelligence efforts to decipher the German code is fascinating and complicated. The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara Tuchman recounts that story in all of its exciting detail. It is an excellent historical account for high school students.
The coded telegram is from Decimal File 862.20212/82A (1910-1929), and the decoded telegram below is from Decimal File 862.20212/69 (1910-1929), General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59.
German u-boats
World War IGermany was the first country to employ submarines in war as substitutes for surface commerce raiders. At the outset of World War I, German U-boats, though numbering only 38, achieved notable successes against British warships; but because of the reactions of neutral powers (especially the United States) Germany hesitated before adopting unrestricted U-boat warfare against merchant ships. The decision to do so in February 1917 was largely responsible for the entry of the United States into the war. The U-boat campaign then became a race between German sinkings of merchant ships and the building of ships, mainly in the United States, to replace them. In April 1917, 430 Allied and neutral ships totaling 852,000 tons were sunk, and it seemed likely that the German gamble would succeed. However, the introduction of convoys, the arrival of numerous U.S. destroyers, and the vast output of American shipyards turned the tables. By the end of the war Germany had built 334 U-boats and had 226 under construction. The peak U-boat strength of 140 was reached in October 1917, but there were never more than about 60 at sea at one time. In 1914–18 the destruction—more than 10,000,000 tons—caused by the U-boats was especially remarkable in view of the small size (less than l,000 tons), frailty, and vulnerability of the craft.
Isolationism versus Interventionism Debate
chemicalweapons.cenmag.org/when-chemicals-became-weapons-of-war/Chemical Warfare
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