The+Great+White+Fleet

Event Summary
[|Cruise of the Great White Fleet] (1907-1909) from Navy History and Heritage Command. In its round the world sail, the fleet covered
 * 43,000 miles
 * Six continents
 * 20 cities
 * 14 months

[|Great White Fleet]from Theodore Roosevelt Center, Dickinson State University

[|The Great White Fleet: Reassessing America's Rise to Power]





**Primary Sources**
[|Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet,] Library of Congress

[|The Great White Fleet Visits Japan 1908]

[|Scrapbook from the Round-the-World Voyage of the Great White Flee]t, from History of the Navy in 100 Objects on YouTube. This segment is based on a scrapbook from a crew member



Teaching Resources
[|America Abroad] from TeachingHistory.org

[|Theodore Roosevelt: Foreign Affairs], Miller Center, University of Virginia

For more on America's role in world affairs after the Civil War, see United States History II.6