USA HISTORY

What was the name of Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy that claimed that we would use our military to protect our country, trading partners, and neighbors?

(A) Moral Diplomacy

(B) ** Big Stick Diplomacy

(C) Dollar Diplomacy

(D) Isolationism

Concept note-1: -The 1930s were a high point of isolationism in the United States. The key foreign policy initiative of Roosevelt’s first term was the Good Neighbor Policy, in which the U.S. took a non-interventionist stance in Latin American affairs.

Concept note-2: -Big stick ideology, big stick diplomacy, or big stick policy refers to President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy, “speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far".

Concept note-3: -President Theodore Roosevelt’s assertive approach to Latin America and the Caribbean has often been characterized as the “Big Stick, ” and his policy came to be known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.