Taft Administration - Foreign Issues
Foreign Issues
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the United States began building an empire that stretched around the globe. In the late nineteenth century the United States had acquired Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and part of Samoa. Theodore Roosevelt had acted as arbitrator in conflicts between Russia and Japan and then later in one involving Britain, France, and Germany. This desire to acquire territories far from U.S. shores and to become involved in settling disputes in Europe and Asia reflected a change in policy from the isolationism of the United States during the nineteenth century. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Americans increasingly believed that the United States had to become more concerned about events across the seas.
William Howard Taft, Roosevelt's secretary of war and then his successor, continued the policy of involvement. Taft's policy came to be called dollar diplomacy...
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