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  2. Dollar diplomacy - Wikipedia

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    Dollar diplomacy of the United States, particularly during the presidency of William Howard Taft (1909–1913) was a form of American foreign policy to minimize the use or threat of military force and instead further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through the use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. [1]

  3. List of executive actions by William Howard Taft - Wikipedia

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    Amending Civil Service Rules in Relation to Proposed Employee Transfers March 23, 1909 3 1053: Authorizing Reinstatement of F. B. Simons as Clerk in Internal Revenue Office March 24, 1909 4 1054 Lands in Minnesota Previously Reserved at Headwaters of Mississippi River Restored to Public Domain March 30, 1909 5 1055

  4. United States occupation of Nicaragua - Wikipedia

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    By 1912 the ongoing political conflict in Nicaragua between the liberal and conservative factions had deteriorated to the point that U.S. investments under President Taft's Dollar Diplomacy including substantial loans to the fragile coalition government of conservative President Juan José Estrada were in jeopardy.

  5. Presidency of William Howard Taft - Wikipedia

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    Taft and Secretary of State Knox instituted a policy of Dollar Diplomacy towards Latin America, believing U.S. investment would benefit all involved and minimize European influence in the area. Although exports rose sharply during Taft's administration, his Dollar Diplomacy policy was unpopular among Latin American states that did not wish to ...

  6. History of U.S. foreign policy, 1897–1913 - Wikipedia

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    Taft and Porfirio Díaz, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1909. Taft and Secretary of State Knox instituted a policy of Dollar Diplomacy towards Latin America, believing U.S. investment would benefit all involved and minimize European influence in the area. Although exports rose sharply during Taft's administration, his Dollar Diplomacy policy was ...

  7. William Howard Taft - Wikipedia

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    Taft and his Secretary of State, Philander Knox, instituted a policy of Dollar Diplomacy toward Latin America, believing U.S. investment would benefit all involved, while diminishing European influence in regions where the Monroe Doctrine applied.

  8. Latin America–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    From 1909 to 1913, President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox followed a foreign policy characterized as "dollar diplomacy." Taft shared the view held by Knox (a corporate lawyer who had founded the giant conglomerate U.S. Steel) that the goal of diplomacy should be to create stability abroad and, through this ...

  9. Philander C. Knox - Wikipedia

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    Under Taft the focus of foreign policy was the encouragement and protection of U.S. investments abroad called Dollar diplomacy. This was first applied in 1909, in a failed attempt to help China assume ownership of the Manchurian railways. [13]