Foreign Developments: Big Stick Diplomacy

Question 1

Who created the idea of Big Stick Diplomacy?

Answer 1

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 2

What did the idea of Big Stick Diplomacy say?

Answer 2

Negotiations with foreign countries should be peaceful, but the USA should have a powerful military force to fight off these countries if negotiations go wrong

Question 3

Give an example of Roosevelt exercising the Big Stick Diplomacy

Answer 3

The Great White Fleet

Question 4

Give an example of Taft exercising the Big Stick Diplomacy

Answer 4

Buying the first war plane in 1909