Punitive, 1916

HIS 187

Previously

• Neutrality
• Zimmermann telegram

Pancho Villa

Hollywood Villa

Mexico circa World War I

Taft–Diaz meeting, 1909

Francisco Madero

A financial version of the Monroe Doctrine

The concessionaries and foreign interests must go. . . . Who commonly seeks the intervention of the united states in Latin American troubles? . . . Always the foreign interests, bondholders, or concessionaries.

Woodrow Wilson, 1913

Exclusion of European finances

Certain sorts of concessions granted by governments in America to European financiers . . . might . . . imperil the political independence or, at least, the complete political autonomy of the American states involved.

Woodrow Wilson, 1914

The Bryan alternative

Our country [could have] such an increased influence . . . that we could prevent revolutions, promote education, and advance stable and just government.

William Jennings Bryan

Bryan–Chamorro, 1914

An unsent message

It shall not lie with the American people to dictate to another people what their government shall be or what use they shall have.

Woodrow Wilson, 1916

Mexico circa World War I, redux

Veracruz, 1914

Villista raids

Raid on Columbus

Pershing and the punitive expedition

The “well-named” Punitive Expedition

An education, maybe