The Learn Tracker
...life-long learning: structured, organized, searchable...
924
Lectures Watched
Since January 1, 2014
Hundreds of free, self-paced university courses available:
my recommendations here
Peruse my collection of 275
influential people of the past.
View My Class Notes via:
Receive My Class Notes via E-Mail:

VIEW ARCHIVE

Contact Me via E-Mail:
edward [at] tanguay.info
Notes on video lecture:
Theodore Roosevelt on National Security
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 11, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
security, intervene, 1904, chronic, civilized, abroad, Rough, Monroe, Germany, Peace, threats, Cuban, Japan, controversies, colonialism, Panamanian, Japanese, 1881, 1812, Hague, peace, police, territorial, precondition, compete, Europe
•
at the end of the 19th century, the                        expansion of the United States across the continent came to an end
•
new existential threats could now only come from             
•
Theodore Roosevelt knew this and sought to promote an international              power
•
to prevent other nations'                wrongdoing
•
The Roosevelt Corollary to the              Doctrine
•
"Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of                    society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power."
•
his goal was to secure the Western hemisphere from two international               
•
1. a possible                  expansion
•
2. European                       
•
1898            War against Spain
•
Roosevelt fought with his own battalion, "The            Riders"
•
1882 book, "The Naval War of         "
•
an efficient navy is a                          to keeping the nation safe
•
1915: "Preparedness against war must be based upon efficiency and justice in the handling of ourselves in time of           ."
•
Panama Canal
•
France began work on the canal in          but stopped due to engineering problems and a high worker mortality rate
•
the United States took over the project in         , and opened the canal on August 15, 1914
•
in 1999 the canal was taken over by the                      government
•
understood the the great powers were inclined to                with each other
•
essential to find way to resolve                            in a peaceful way
•
promoted the cause of international law and arbitration
•
directly intervened between Russia and            to end their war in 1905
•
for this he won the Nobel            Prize, the first U.S. president to do so
•
sponsored the second peace conference in The            in 1908
•
searched for a more stable system of international peace making
•
during World War I, Roosevelt called for the United States to                   
•
in order to defeat               
•
bring stability to             
•
maintained that the power of the United States was essential for maintaining world order
•
Theodore's view of                  was based on three areas:
•
1. sea power
•
2. international intervention
•
3. conflict mediation
The Three Roosevelts
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt on National Security
Franklin Roosevelt's Approach to Security