Teddy Roosevelt and Big Stick

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)

Allowed the canal zone for the US in exchange for freeing Panama from Columbia.

• Apartheid in canal zone

Roosevelt Corollary (1904)

Roosevelt’s addition to the Monroe doctrine that allowed US intervention in LA to collect debts as a police force.

• Created to protect US economic interest and “provide stability”, but actually just didn’t allow them to develop and made them vulnerable.

• Not allow European intervention

• Builds LA resentment

Open Door Policy (1900)

Equal trading rights in china to prevent a monopoly on Chinese markets.

• US wanted to join the trade party

• Resulted in growing Chinese resentment and exploitation - boxer rebellion

John Hay

Big treaty negotiator, rad diplomat who formulated the open door policy under McKinley and Roosevelt.

Great White Fleet

Us naval fleet that showcases US growing naval power on a global tour

Big Stick Diplomacy

Negotiating peacefully while also using military force to rule

2nd occupation of Cuba

To “stabalize Cuba post collapse”

• Protect US interests