FCHS HONOR CODE PLEDGE: _____________________________________ DATE: __________________
US FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS LATIN AMERICA
TITLE FRAME. US FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS
LATIN AMERICA
What is “Latin” America? Why is it important to
US Foreign Policy?
Frame 2. What became apparent to TR during
the Spanish American War, when it took the USS
Oregon months to get from San Francisco to
Cuba?
Frame 3. What American President was most
responsible for the construction of a canal
through Central America? Where did he intend
to build this canal?
Frame 4. What nation controlled the isthmus of
Panama in 1903? What did TR offer this nation in
exchange for permission to build the canal? Was
the offer accepted or not?
Frame 5. How did Panama become an
independent nation? What kind of foreign policy
is this an example of? What did the nation of
Panama receive from the United States in
exchange for permission to build the canal?
Frame 6. What problem had undermined French
efforts to build the Panama Canal in the 1880s?
What American doctor identified the cause of this
problem? How did the United States avoid falling
into the same trap?
Frame 7. Who built the Panama Canal in terms
of planning and engineering? Who built the
Panama Canal in terms of labor and toil? What
American President visited Panama to personally
inspect the progress of construction?
Frame 8. What two bodies of water are
connected by the Panama Canal? What
advantages are gained by the United States with
its completion in 1914?
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Frame 9. What was Theodore Roosevelt’s
favorite expression and how was it exemplified in
the construction of the Panama Canal?
Frame 10. How is Theodore Roosevelt and his
foreign policy depicted in the political cartoon?
Frame 11. How did the Roosevelt Corollary
influence relations between the United States
and European colonial powers? What previous
foreign policy of the United States, articulated in
1823, was the Roosevelt Corollary an addition to?
Frame 12. How did European nations feel about
the Roosevelt Corollary? How did America’s Latin
American neighbors feel about this foreign
policy?
Frame 13. Define “Big Stick” Diplomacy.
Theodore
ROOSEVELT
Frame 13. Define “Dollar Diplomacy.”
WILLIAM HOWARD
TAFT
Frame 14. Define “Moral Diplomacy.”
WOODROW WILSON
Frame 15. What sovereign nation did Woodrow
Wilson invade repeatedly during the 1910s in
order to restore order to the country? Was this
intervention successful?
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