PPT-Diplomacy in Latin America

and the SpanishAmerican War The Monroe Doctrine Europe and the Western Hemisphere AmericanFrench Revolutions sparked revolution in C and S America against Imperial powers Spain Portugal France . A New Foreign Policy. Concession. A concession is a grant for a piece of land in exchange for a promise to use the land for a specific purpose.. Americans needed a shorter route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A French company had bought a 25-year concession from Colombia to build a canal across Panama Defeated by yellow fever and mismanagement, the company abandoned the project and offered its remaining rights to the United States for $100 million.. Juan Carlos Moreno . Brid. . Deputy. Director . ECLAC - . Mexico. . . JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY,. New Delhi, . January. 2012. Global growth has slowed sharply after the recovery from the crisis. Part I- American Imperialism . What is Imperialism?. a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Reasons for Imperialism . New Markets . and Resources. Cultural Superiority. The 1872 . - . 1917. Chapter . 5. Becoming a World Power. Why It Matters. The US continues to project power through its Navy. The Panama Canal still serves as a major route for world commerce. Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa still maintain strong ties with the US. Chapter 20. Latin American Background. Peoples of Latin America. Peninsulares. - . Spanish-born whites (highest class). Creole. - colonial-born whites (minority). Mestizo. - mixed European and Indigenous descent (majority) . A New Foreign Policy. Concession. A concession is a grant for a piece of land in exchange for a promise to use the land for a specific purpose.. Americans needed a shorter route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A French company had bought a 25-year concession from Colombia to build a canal across Panama Defeated by yellow fever and mismanagement, the company abandoned the project and offered its remaining rights to the United States for $100 million.. 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 . Cold War Period. TODAY’s OBJECTIVES:. Explain the political context in Latin America after WWII . Explain . how the Cold War affected . Latin America. Following . WWII – the political grouping into three “worlds”:. In Latin America, most of the countries are quite ____.. They are what we would called ____ nations because they are still mainly agricultural based and do not have a great deal of money per person, or ____ income.. I can understand the steps Presidents took that got us to war.. Literacy Target: . I can convey ones thinking using proper writing conventions.. Opener:. Write. down the word . “diplomacy”. . -predict . - . 1917. Chapter . 5. Becoming a World Power. Why It Matters. The US continues to project power through its Navy. The Panama Canal still serves as a major route for world commerce. Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa still maintain strong ties with the US. Mexico. Central America. Caribbean Islands. South America. Why do we call it . Latin. America?. We call it LATIN America because most of the European countries that colonized this region spoke Spanish or Portuguese. Both of these languages are derived (or come from) the ancient Latin language. Thus we call this region Latin America.. SS6G4 A-B-C. SS6G1. The student will locate selected features of Latin America and the Caribbean.. . a. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map:. . Amazon River. , . Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Panama Canal, Andes Mountains, Sierra Madre Mountains, . Showing America’s Might!. The Debate. What do we do with the new territory we claimed after the Spanish-American War?. What do we do with the new territory we claimed after the Spanish-American War?.