Expansion and Imperialism:  

The Rise of an American Empire

I.  Introduction: Entangling Alliances

A.  Washington's Farewell Address
B.  A Changed World

II.  Consolidating American Hemispheric Power

A.  Early U.S. Foreign Policy
        1.  Envisioning an "American Empire"
        2.  Removing European Obstacles
                a.  Monroe Doctrine, 1823
        3.  Further Expansion?

III. Sources of Imperialist Expansion

A.  Definition
B.  U.S. Motivations
        1.  Economic
        2.  Strategic
        3.  Nationalism
C.  The Spanish American War
        1.  "A Splendid Little War"
        2.  Filipino Insurrection
D.  Anti-imperialist Response

IV.  Progressive Diplomacy

A.  Teddy Roosevelt and the Big Stick
        1.  Roosevelt Corollary
B.  Taft and "Dollar Diplomacy"
C.  Woodrow Wilson's "New Diplomacy"

V. "The War to End All Wars"

A. American Neutrality
        1. Political constituencies
        2. Loans and Submarine Warfare
        3. The Zimmerman Telegram (1917)
        4. America enters the war (April 1917)

VI. Wilsonian Idealism in the Post-war Order

A.  Fourteen Points
B.  Versailles Treaty
C.  Opposition at Home
D.  Disillusionment at Home