1. Presidential Diplomacy
Lecture 2

2. Standard
Explain Roosevelt’s Big Stick diplomacy, Taft’s Dollar diplomacy, and Wilson’s Moral diplomacy, drawing on relevant speeches
Essential Question: Explain the 3 types of Diplomacy and which President was responsible for each.

3. Big Stick Diplomacy Theodore Roosevelt
The idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the "big stick“
military
Made this speech 12 days before taking the Presidency

5. Dollar Diplomacy
Taft encouraged Americans to invest in businesses and banks in Central America and the Caribbean
they bought plantations, mines, railroads, etc.
intervened in unstable economies
the US influenced the election of pro-American leaders
Taft used the military when that didn’t work

7. Moral Diplomacy
Wilson vowed to use foreign policy to help countries develop liberty
Criticized both dollar and “Big Stick” diplomacy
William Jennings Bryan as Secretary of State
Sent troops to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico
the Mexican Revolution in 1911 complicated US-Mexican policies
Wilson helped Carranza topple Huerta
Wilson sent Pershing to find Pancho Villa after he killed Americans in New Mexico in 1916