The United States has had many leaders in politics and they’ve all had their ways of impacting the country. One of the big reforms to make as a President is to implement policies to help your nation, and as America worked on foreign policy and imperialism, different policies were made to give the U.S. a standing in the World and its politics.
The Big Stick Diplomacy was implemented by Theodore Roosevelt and at its core, it was a threat of U.S.’s strong military force to use when the U.S. wanted their foreign policy goals to go their way. Roosevelt felt that they didn’t need anything but the threat of such a thing to get what they desired. It can be explained with a mental image of speaking politely and softly but carrying a blunt, big stick. This policy is quite violent because the threat of the military can easily switch to being the USE of military, but it seemed to get the U.S. what they wanted many times.
Dollar Diplomacy was coined by William Howard Taft, who frequently relied on economic power rather than military force in his presidency. Dollar diplomacy, similar to Big Stick Diplomacy, was about using the United States’ economy and monetary provisions to gain the advantage in foreign policy. For example, the U.S. paid off many of the Latin American debts to European countries, not only to prevent Europe from having a reason to be in the West,
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The president was caught in a loophole when World War II came around because while trying to keep the U.S. out of the war, the Americans felt he wasn’t adhering to a good moral stance. Wilson also unraveled the other policies that were once in place, and by getting rid of Dollar Diplomacy in Asia, Japan was able to become aggressive and cause more trouble. The overall effect of this policy was that it seemed nice in theory, but caused more turmoil by being