TURN of the CENTURY DIPLOMACY

TURN of the CENTURY DIPLOMACY

The money, the stick, the morality

Uncle Sam getting a new outfit made at the "McKinley and Company National Tailors" with President McKinley taking the measurements. Carl Schurz, Joseph Pulitzer, and Oswald Ottendorfer stand inside the entrance to the shop and Schurz is offering Uncle Sam a spoonful of "Anti-Expansion Policy" medicine, a bottle of which each is carrying. (more)

WILLIAMHOWARD TAFTdollar diplomacy

It is therefore essential that the countries within [Latin America] shall be removed from the jeopardy involved by heavy foreign debt and chaotic national finances and from the ever present danger of international complications due to disorder at home. Hence, the United States has been glad to encourage and support American bankers who were willing to lend a helping hand to the financial rehabilitation of such countries because this financial rehabilitation and the protection of their customhouses from being the prey of would-be dictators would remove at one stroke the menace of foreign creditors and the menace of revolutionary disorder.”

The position of the United States in the moral, intellectual, and material relations of the family of nations should be a matter of vital interest to every patriotic citizen. The national prosperity and power impose upon us duties which we cannot shirk if we are to be true to our ideals. The tremendous growth of the export trade of the United States has already made that trade a very real factor in the industrial and commercial prosperity of the country. With the development of our industries, the foreign commerce of the United States must rapidly become a still more essential factor in its economic welfare. …

WILLIAMMcKINLEYdiplomacy

• Cuba• Philippines• Boxer Rebellion

USS Maine

William McKinley, 1899"I have been criticized a good deal about the Philippines, but I don't deserve it. . . . [because] there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them. . . ." 

Take up the White Man's burden-

Send forth the best ye breed-Go bind your sons to exile

To serve your captives' need;To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, 

Half-devil and half-child.

Rudyard KiplingThe White Man’s Burden,

1899

THEODOREROOSEVELTbig stick diplomacy

TheWorld’s

Policeman

President Theodore Roosevelt , his first annual message to Congress:“Whether we desire it or not, we must henceforth recognize that we have international duties no less than international rights…. More and more, the increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent... to insist on the proper policing of the world.”

Aggressive

RighteousProud

Militaristic

Personality:• great wonder of nature• Appetite of four people• radioactive• Electric bombshell• “steam engine in trousers”• a solar conflagration that cast no shadow, only radiance• Sweet• Sincerely powerful• magnetic

Accomplishments:• Magna cum laude from Harvard• author of 4-volume history of the West• History of naval war of 1812• Wrote biographies and 14 other volumes of history• wrote countless articles and 75,000 letters• read 1-3 books each day• recite poetry in three languages• married twice, father to six children• boxing championship finalist• socialite, cowboy, deputy sheriff, police commissioner , assistant Secretary of the Navy, colonel of the Rough Riders, Governor of New York, Vice President and POTUS, founding member of National Institute of Arts and Letters, fellow of the American Hitorical Society• ornithologist, paleontologist, taxidermist, world authority on big-game mammals

• Panama Canal• Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine• Great White Fleet:

good will tourdemonstrate naval powergive crew at-sea experience

• Russo-Japanese Warmediated in 1905Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906

WOODROW WILSONmoral diplomacy

• Latin America• 14 Points• Versailles Treaty