Political Science Notes
10/19/2012
-Roosevelt corollary 1904 - in the future if a European counties that has a debt problem with a Latin America country then you would go to the United States and not go straight to the country. Have US enforce the policy and collect debt.
- Latin America countries did not like the policy ( Dominican Republic had issues with the British so America took over the government and seized control of the resources)
-Summer of 1914 - Europeans was ready to begin another internal war, the United States did not get involved listening to Washington
-The war started August 1914 (WWI)
-The American wanted to make money off the European countries but they broke neutrality
-The Germans wanted to cut off American supplies coming in
-The British made sure that there were a blockade that stopped all things going to Germany from US
-The British battleships would be waiting at the North Sea which give the Germans no chance to intercept any incoming American supplies
-The Germans relied on German u-boats
-The Germans wanted to end the war so they decided to sink all American ships
-Woodrow Wilson is a very moralistic man
-US army was not very modern compared to European armies
-Germany tried to convince Mexico to start war with the US in return to promising Mexico more territories from the US
-Mexico and Germany started to send communications (telegram) the Zimmerman
-The US April 1917 declared war but the US did not have an army. The size of the US army was about 200000 which could be lost in one battle on the western front.
-The United States Army begin to go on the battlefield on the 1918 by then Germany was almost done
-The British lost about 1 million soldiers
-The French was about 1.4 million soldiers
• After the war - Wilson proposed more trades more democracy national sum of determination ( the league of nation )
• Congress did not like the idea of league of nation did not like the trade and at the end did not get involved with it
• 1920-1930 -
-Roosevelt corollary 1904 - in the future if a European counties that has a debt problem with a Latin America country then you would go to the United States and not go straight to the country. Have US enforce the policy and collect debt.
- Latin America countries did not like the policy ( Dominican Republic had issues with the British so America took over the government and seized control of the resources)
-Summer of 1914 - Europeans was ready to begin another internal war, the United States did not get involved listening to Washington
-The war started August 1914 (WWI)
-The American wanted to make money off the European countries but they broke neutrality
-The Germans wanted to cut off American supplies coming in
-The British made sure that there were a blockade that stopped all things going to Germany from US
-The British battleships would be waiting at the North Sea which give the Germans no chance to intercept any incoming American supplies
-The Germans relied on German u-boats
-The Germans wanted to end the war so they decided to sink all American ships
-Woodrow Wilson is a very moralistic man
-US army was not very modern compared to European armies
-Germany tried to convince Mexico to start war with the US in return to promising Mexico more territories from the US
-Mexico and Germany started to send communications (telegram) the Zimmerman
-The US April 1917 declared war but the US did not have an army. The size of the US army was about 200000 which could be lost in one battle on the western front.
-The United States Army begin to go on the battlefield on the 1918 by then Germany was almost done
-The British lost about 1 million soldiers
-The French was about 1.4 million soldiers
• After the war - Wilson proposed more trades more democracy national sum of determination ( the league of nation )
• Congress did not like the idea of league of nation did not like the trade and at the end did not get involved with it
• 1920-1930 -