History B 2.1

Big Stick Diplomacy was the foreign policy of which president?

• Taft

• Roosevelt

• Wilson

Dollar Diplomacy was the foreign policy of which president?

• Roosevelt

• Taft

• Wilson

Moral Diplomacy was the foreign policy of which president?

• Roosevelt

• Taft

• Wilson

Why was the United States interested in building a canal in Panama?

• To increase transportation times

• To maintain control of Panama

• To build a military base

• To protect trade routes

Which ideology stated that the United States had the right to intervene in Latin American nations as an "international police power"?

• Monroe Doctrine

• Moral Diplomacy

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Roosevelt Corollary

What was the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)?

• It opened Panama to trade with all nations.

• It allowed the United States to use, occupy, and control a 10-mile wide canal zone in Panama.

• It gave the United States the right to build a military base in Columbia.

• It gave Panama to Nicaragua.

When a Central American nation refused to accept American loans to pay off its debt to Great Britain, the United States responded with military force to change the government's decision. Which foreign policy does this action support?

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Big Stick Diplomacy

• Wilson's Moral Diplomacy

What ideology was used to justify US intervention in the Mexican Revolution, especially between 1913-1917?

• Moral Diplomacy

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Big Dtick Diplomacy

Theodore Roosevelt often quoted an old proverb, "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far”. How did he mean by the ‘big stick’?

• Military intervention

• Peace treaties

• Forced assimilation

• Sharing of cultural attributes

What was the aim of Moral Diplomacy?

• to economically injure non-democratic countries

• to improve trade relations with Latin America

• to keep European nations out of Latin America

• to increase military bases around Latin America