Dollar Diplomacy

Put together by Luis, Odalie,

Jessica, and some other guy. I
don’t know him too well and
I’m too tired to ask his name…
so…yeah.
Oh, wait he says his name is
David something-or-other.
So…yeah…
(akward!)
 Still…Dollar
Diplomacy
• This policy is called • Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy and was mostly
is about imperialistic
control
directed to Latin
America and the
• This Policy was
enacted in 1909 by Far East
President William
Howard Taft
 STILL…Dollar
Diplomacy

• The United States tried to go

and protect commercial
interests,investments, and
business men out in foreign
countries.
 Now, what is this policy
supposed to do for us
anyway?
We gain control of foreign trade
by making other ships tell us
what they’re carrying and
where they’re going…
After Building the Panama Canal
of course
What do we (U.S.) do for imperialism?

We pretty much have complete

control over ships coming in
and out of the Pacific Ocean
and we economically influence
other countries by either
allowing or not allowing
shipments to reach their
destination.
So…what proof do you have of the U.S.
being imperialistic?

• The US began to gain • So that pretty much means

control when the US, that they were already
beginning to keep other
“…had strategic
countries from being in
implications because danger financially because
of the soon-to-be- the Panama Canal was
completed Panama almost completed
Canal.” • (and also we kinda wanna
keep making money off of
them [KA-CHING])