ch. 8 - Foreign Policies of U.S. Presidents

Dear Diary,
I am writing about the three main presidents during this time period. Even though we have had many greats before, I will talk about Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.
Starting off with Theodore Roosevelt, or the Big Stick Diplomacy. One of his big ideas was to enforce the Monroe Doctrine by force if necessary. Roosevelt was very invested in the Latin America countries. He would always worry that they could not pay their loans off to the Europeans so we paid them off, and then took control over their finances. He also created the Roosevelt Corollary to reinforce the Monroe Doctrine. He also would support this by military enforcement if needed. So in all, Roosevelt's way of handeling foreign affairs was to make peace and try to come to an understanding, but always be able to back it up with force if needed.
Next, William Taft, uses the Dollar Diplomacy. This means that they would use the interest of economics and money to build up the power of America. The goal of this is to create the best promotion for America to other nations, also have a stable financial businesses, and also he wanted to make sure that businesses would still invest in other countries. The Dollar diplomacy was used in Nicaragua, when loans were guaranteed with the support of overthrowing Jose Santos Zelaya. Another times this was used is when he used it in Haiti. He made American investment influx, but later this made the Haitians upset. Lastly, he used it in China, to stregnthen the Open Door Policy along with decreasing the Japanese and Russian power over China.    
Lastly, Woodrow Wilson wanted to use Moral Diplomacy. He would only support other countries that supported America. An example is in Mexico, he didn't acknowledge a general who gained his title illegally. He sent troops in when there were attacks on Americans. He also wanted to put an end to Imperialism, and expand our territory if we have to take over foreign territories. In Mexico, Carranzo, did not follow the American guildelines that they needed to form a new governmen, and he disapproved.

So there you go, the three Presidents of this time.

Until next time...

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