Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick, 1902-1917

Links for today:

US / World History in Context (need WSU login to use, useful starting point for research on any of the international episodes covered in this chapter)

U.S. Navy from Civil War to the “Great White Fleet”

Quick overview of Theodore Roosevelt’s “Great White Fleet” trip 1906-1907

The Schlieffen Plan (i.e. why Germany invaded France through Belgium in 1914, and how that worked out for them)

PBS American Experience, The Great War, Chapter 1