Roosevelt Corollary And Dollar Diplomacy

Question 1

What was the Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 1

1904 TR adding to Monroe doctrine saying US had the right to excerice international power in Latin America in cases of any wrong doing.

Question 2

What was dollar diplomacy

Answer 2

1909 president Taft’s way of dealing with foreign affairs was to avoid direct intervention by using US financial powers instead

Question 3

Example of dollar diplomacy

Answer 3

1909 Taft used Honduras debts to US to establish financial control
Similar in Haiti and Nicaragua 1914, not 100% successful as US troops had to be sent to suppress violence