Diplomacy and Test Review Notes

Diplomacy Types

• Dollar Diplomacy:

  • Involves using money to control countries.
  • Countries become reliant on loans.
  • If a country doesn't comply, financial support is withdrawn.

• Moral Diplomacy:

  • Entails intervening in countries based on moral principles.
  • Focuses on doing what is perceived as the "right moral thing."

Roosevelt Corollary

• An extension of the Monroe Doctrine.
• Monroe Doctrine:
  • Asserted that the United States would police the Western Hemisphere.
• The Roosevelt Corollary stated that the U.S. would enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
  • Involves military intervention.

Big Stick Diplomacy

• Relies on military intervention as a primary tool.
• Associated with Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy approach.
• The "big stick" represents the use of military force.

Modern Foreign Policy

• The U.S. utilizes all three diplomacy types (big stick, dollar, and moral) in its foreign policy today.
  • Military intervention is used when necessary.
  • Financial control is employed through economic means.
  • Moral justifications are given for interventions, often framed as protecting democracy.

Protecting Democracy

• The U.S. uses intervention to protect democracy. The reasons given for intervention are often based on the need to protect and maintain democracy.

Test Review

• On Thursday there will be a full test review.

  • Strategies for multiple-choice questions will be covered.
  • Short answer questions will be reviewed.
  • The DBQ will be reviewed as a refresher.
  • The last ten years of DBQ prompts will be examined to predict the potential DBQ subject for the test.

• DBQ Focus:

  • Past DBQs have frequently been from period 4.
  • Hoping for periods 7 or 8 this year to focus more on twentieth-century topics.