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Matthew Perry
US Commodore who opened Japan to foreign trade. -
Captain Alfred Mahan
a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt inherited an empire-in-the-making when he assumed office in 1901. After the Spanish-American War in 1898, Spain ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States. In addition, the United States established a protectorate over Cuba and annexed Hawaii. -
William Taft
President Taft was more committed to the expansion of U.S. foreign trade than was Roosevelt. He pursued a program, known as "dollar diplomacy," designed to encourage U.S. investments in South and Central American, the Caribbean, and the Far East
