Ideology – manifest destiny, Isaiah Strong- wants Christianity and civil liberty to be spread God given responsibility Progressivism gone abroad, what works here will work everywhere.

Economics-spread the market economy, making more than they can consume,

Security- Panama canal, vital for security, need control of the access Beveridge and Strong Americans will bring security and safety to the countries, also bring civilized governments and create civilized societies 

1. 1898- Teller Ammendment
2. 1899- US acquires Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines 
3. 1899- Open Door policy with China- stated that all European nations could trade with China
4. 1900- Boxer Rebellion in China
   1. In June 1900, Boxer fighters gathered in Beijing to besiege the foreign embassies. On June 21, the conservative faction of the Imperial Court induced the Empress Dowager, who ruled in the emperor’s name, to declare war on the foreign powers that had diplomatic representation in Beijing. Diplomats, foreign civilians, soldiers and some Chinese Christians retreated to the Legation Quarter where they held out for fifty-five days until the Eight-Nation Alliance brought 20,000 troops to their rescue.

1. 1902- Platt Ammendment - made Cuba a protectorate of the United States
2. 1903- Panama gains independence with American help
3. 1904- Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine- Right to intervene in Latin American affairs

What were US imperialist objectives from 1903-1917, how were they achieved and what was their success?

Maximizing American economic, social, ideological influence against competing claims. 

Roosevelt Corollary and Monroe doctrine- inconsequently by the dollar diplomacy of the Taft administration the US attempted to secure much of Latin America as a United States sphere of influence  

Imperialistic objectives

What- ideological

How- doctrines

Temporary success- our imperialistic objectives were successful  

7.  Revisionist historians claim that the United States in the 1920s practiced independent or conservative internationalism.  What do they mean?  What evidence do they cite to support this interpretation of the period?

NO military commitment but economically and cultural involvement

5 power treaty 5;5;3  US and Britain could have 5 for Japans for 3

Films

Telegraph

Radio – the beginnings of globalization

Kellog- Briand Pact- was a multinational treaty that prohibited the use of war as an instrument of national policy

The Dawes Plan- sending financial advisors to Germany to radically reduce the payments

Expansion of state economical, supported by Hoover secretary of commerce, soft economic involvement

Tourism combined expenditure 137 million Americans traveling to Europe

Tariff was really high in 1928

Archeology- finder’s keepers 

Unlike Ferrell we are arguing that the 1920s and the 1930s are not the same

1930’s less involved

1920’s more involved

1930s- US doesn’t want to pay for foreign goods anymore

Unemployment rose in the countries we weren’t buying from

Rising unemployment exports decline= vicious cycle

HAWLLEY-SMOOT TARRIFF-raised import duties, supper high tariffs, made foreign governments view this as a hostile move, so foreign markets increased tariffs foreign trade decreased by half!

FDR- has a long list of problems to deal with in the US, turns reform inward focuses on New Deal policies, FDR knows he’s up for election

US by FDR declines Britain’s invite to international economic conference, because US interests were on his mind not international

No Chapter 9 Brands “in the world but not of the world”

5 power treaty- suspended the construction of new battle ships to a 5:5:3 ratio

Washington conference

Patterson pg. 48-64, maybe more 

9.  Beginning with the early years of the 20th century, discuss the problems/incidents in US-Japan relations that eventually resulted in war on 7 December 1941.

Japan Russo War
Portsmouth treaty
21 demands 1915- make china protectorate of japan, china leaks to the US, US intervenes
1924- End of immigration from Japanese to US
1931- Manchurian incident
      Japan invades sets up puppet government – actions in direct defiance of league nations
1937- Japan enters China proper
1940/41- Japan moves to Indochina wanted
Manchurian incident 1931 (under prologue to war page in notes)
Pg 36 Brands and 128 in P