In the 20th century, a marvelous change happened in the United States foreign policy from isolationism to imperialism. Since Manifest Destiny was already completed, America, having an arrogant attitude, had the ambition for expanding overseas. The desire for new economic markets, the sensationalistic “yellow press,” Protestant missionary overload, philosophy, enmity of great-power, and naval competition are all factors in transforming America to the untouchable nation. In 1895 to 1896, the Venezuelan boundary crisis showcased an aggressive and new assertion of the Monroe Doctrine. Due to the United States intervening, it led to the American-British reconcilement after an astringent war panic. Since America’s government was obsessed with expansion, …show more content…
This particular war presented American outrage about the Spanish oppression of Cuba. The “yellow press” in this time period made the U.S. support for the Cuban rebellion into a vigorous controversy. When Spain was ready to acknowledge on the major issues they were facing, America’s people pressed President McKinley into war after the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in February 1898. Admiral Dewey’s naval victory, in May 1898 in the rich Spanish Islands of the Philippines in the Pacific, was the very first unsurprising development of the war. All of the Filipino rebels, who were followed by American soldiers, overtook the Philippine city of Manila in another drastic victory. Notwithstanding military conflict and more deaths from disease, United States forces very fluently engulfed the Spanish in Puerto Rico and …show more content…
It was only about fifteen days later that Bunau-Varilla, who was the Panamanian minister regardless of his French citizenship, signed his signature on the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty in Washington. The zone of the canal was widened from 6 to 10 miles, although the price of the canal strip was left the same. The French company in return more than gladly pocketed its forty million dollars from the United States Treasury.
President Theodore Roosevelt himself did not keenly design to tear Panama from the side of Colombia, but all of the collaborators already knew of his angrily expressed views, and so they counted on him using the big stick to embrace Colombia at bay. Due to the Rough Riders becoming so involved in the Panama issue, it marked an unpleasing pitch in U.S. relations with Latin