On September 6, 1904 Teddy Roosevelt made the most future altering decision of the twentieth century. It was on this day that America, a long time domestic animal, went into the ocean and discovered salt. Teddy, a man who had publicly supported such internationalist concepts as the Panama Canal and sending the United States Navy to protect Venezuela in an 1895 conflict with Germany, renounced a long respected doctrine set out by James Monroe in 1823. The doctrine declared that the United States would stay out of European affairs and also warned the Europeans not to ?meddle? in the affairs of America. Monroe made it very clear that any European interference with the western hemisphere would ?impinge upon the rights and interests of this nation.? However, Teddy Roosevelt strongly disagreed. ?If any nation in the western hemisphere acts wrongly and in a fashion that might incite foreign intervention in its affairs, the United States will act to prevent such an occurrence,? he said. With those words a century of American internationalism was born; a century whose people, politics, and overall advancement was shaped by America?s entanglements with the rest

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