USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

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Which term BEST describes Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” foreign policy?

(A) collective security

(B) ** preventive intervention

(C) isolationism

(D) appeasement

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Big Stick diplomacy is the policy of carefully mediated negotiation ("speaking softly") supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military ("big stick").

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: -Roosevelt feared that this would allow for future European involvement in Latin America, so he created a policy known as “preventive intervention.” The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine declared that the U.S. could pay off the Latin American counties’ debts to keep European nations out of Latin America.

Concept note-4: -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.