Essay On Roosevelt Corollary

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the United States was their relationships with other countries and not isolating themselves, foreign policies had to be developed in order to guide it’s interactions with the world. There were three policies of the late 19th century and early 20th century that were used as justification for intervention with Latin America. One foreign policy of the time was Roosevelt’s Big Stick Diplomacy, or more commonly known as the Roosevelt Corollary. “Walk softly, but carry a big stick” was the motto for the Roosevelt Corollary, which focused on justifying the United States interactions and military interventions with Latin America as the U.S. was the big brother of Latin America. In contrast, another foreign policy
When it came to the justification of the Roosevelt Corollary, the United States greatly benefited by being a part of the same hemisphere. The United States, seeing themselves as “the dominant power in the Western Hemisphere” had a “responsibility [to maintain the] peace in the hemisphere” (U.S. Latin America). Due to Europe being of a different hemisphere, the U.S. then viewed that European nations had no responsibility in Latin America, and therefore must remain out of Latin America affairs. The Roosevelt Corollary also justified and positively affected the United States by claiming it as “[their] duty that a nation has no more right to do injustice to another nation” (The Roosevelt Corollary). This gave them more responsibility, and placed the United States as an example to look up to. Then, Latin America was also benefited by the Roosevelt Corollary, as since they were considered a part of the “America republics” they were protected by the United States, since it was their duty to “[maintain] peace in the hemisphere” (Evolution of Policy). This benefited Latin America, because they would be under the protection of the United States from chronic