Theodore Roosevelt And The Rise Of The U.s. Navy,

Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of American Big NavyTheodore Roosevelt was a Big Navy advocator who had a particular taste for navy . He made great efforts to apply the Big Navy policy during his president term. By his proper policy, American navy became "a big stick" needed for world power policy, and established a cogent base of status of America's World Hegemony. The . thesis systematically states the backgrounds of the development of the Big Navy, Theodore Roosevelt's thoughts on the Big Navy and the execution of the policy.The paper is divided into three parts:The introduction clarified the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and the Big Navy, the lately research on the question, the significance of the study on the topic and the goal of the article. The text can be divided into four parts:Firstly, It tells the backgrounds of Theodore Roosevelt's development of Big Navy. During the lately 19th and the early 20th century, America had already become an imperialistic power, and it wanted a great navy for its oversea expansion. The science-technology revolution led the construction of the navy into a steam-steel-warship period. The Theory of the Sea-Power by A ?T ?Mahan as well as the competition of the navy motivated American to develop its navy. However, the reconciliation between America and British provided a perfect environment for the Big Navy.Secondly, it explained Theodore Roosevelt's thoughts on Big Navy. From youth, he brought out extra interests on Navy. After taking part in politics, he totally exerted his capability in Navy Ministry and White House. The thoughts on Big Navy are based on the views of Superior Race, Civilized Expand and Peace on Strength. He advocated elevating the status of Navy strategy, taking emphasis on the warship, and paying attention to the full development and synthesis strength of Navy.Thirdly, the execution of powerful Big Navy. It is the important part of the article. It mainly states the efforts about Theodore Roosevelt's developing the Big Navy, which included the renovation of the construction of warship, the armament, the formation of the battle trainings etc.Fourthly, the rise of powerful Big Navy. The rise of powerful Big Navy is a concrete program control. It mainly points the realization of the strategy of controlling the sea step by step. There are three links. One is to establish the nets of the oversea navy base by controlling the Caribbean and Far East; The second is to control and own the Panama Canal which connected the two oceans; The third is to send and carry on the world-wide cruise of the Great White Fleet, which showed the power of the Big Navy to the world. Theodore Roosevelt gave an important affection during the program.The conclusion values the Roosevelt and the rising of the Big Navy from different respects. The thesis points out that the Big Navy is inevitable requirements and historical products of the development of American monopoly capitalism. Its untruth and deceit are clear. It expressed an insular military thought and military prejudice, which was based on its aggressions and expansions to the world.Finally, the thesis further points out that although the rising of the Big Navy gave ill effects on the world, and Theodore Roosevelt also didn't cast off his responsibility for his planning and joining, we still learn much from his failures and successes.