Big Stick Diplomacy or Big Stick Policy was the slogan describing U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. The United States, he claimed, had the right not only to oppose European intervention in the Western Hemisphere, but also to intervene itself in the domestic affairs of its neighbors if they proved unable to maintain order and national sovereignty on their own. Roosevelt first articulated this slogan at the Minnesota State Fair on September 2, 1901, twelve days before the assassination of President William McKinley, which subsequently thrust him into the Presidency. Roosevelt got the term from a West African proverb,”Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far”. Roosevelt conducted an aggressive foreign policy using Big Stick Diplomacy. Through this policy, the United States became increasingly assertive in the early 1900s acting as an international police force.

It could be seen as a later, more subtle version of Gunboat Diplomacy. The idea led to the expansion of the U.S. Navy and greater involvement in world affairs. This in turn led to the Dollar Diplomacy in the following Taft administration.

Dollar Diplomacy is the term used (by those who opposed it)[1]to describe the efforts of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its foreign policy aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.

Moral Diplomacy – This form of diplomacy, most commonly connected to the Wilson Administration, called for the United States to not interfere with foreign affairs. Wilson used the slogan that had kept the country out of World War I thus far to win his second term. Although key to developing this policy, he was quick to disregard its main points when he entered the first World War. Because of Britain’s monopoly on the transatlantic telephone line, America’s main source of war news was biased in favor of the Allies. When combined with the preexisting prejudice towards increasingly imperialistic Germany, the support for Britain was virtually unanimous leading up to the war. Ironically, Wilson declared America’s entry into the war in seeming negation of his famed “Moral Diplomacy.”

The Big Stick Policy was Theodore Roosevelt’s policy of using force if necessary in controlling Latin America.

Dollar Diplomacy is the name given to President Taft’s policy of protecting our economic interests in Latin America.

The Open Door Policy was the US policy after the Spanish American War of 1898 in having free trade with China in the areas that the European powers had spheres of influence.

Moral diplomacy is the idea of furthering democracy and humanitarian efforts with foreign nations..