USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

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The phrase “Speak softly and carry a big stick” refers to what?

(A) Wilson’s foreign diplomatic policy

(B) Taft’s diplomacy

(C) ** Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” diplomacy

(D) All of these

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The idea is negotiating peacefully but also having strength in case things go wrong. Simultaneously threatening with the “big stick", or the military, ties in heavily with the idea of Realpolitik, which implies a pursuit of political power that resembles Machiavellian ideals.