Critical Thinking 18-3!

What do you think were the similarities and differences of Roosevelts big stick policy and Wilson's missionary diplomacy?

Roosevelt and Wilson both had a different policy on approaching conflicts with other countries. Roosevelt's policy was to always be straightforward and inform other counties what there plans were and what they intended to do. If the other county was not supportive of what was said then the United States would threaten violence, this way countries would obey to avoid the looming conflict and violence that would happen if they didn't. This policy seemed to conclude with a mostly peaceful result and no real violence ever surfaced. With Wilson's diplomacy policy, he believed that he should be spreading his ideas peacefully around the world and trying to impose democracy on other countries. This however would sometimes end up with violence coming from opposing nations. These two policy's had different approaches that lead to oppiste and different results but still the two ideas shared one similar goal, which was to help the growth of the US as an imperialist power and to give the growing nation more control and influence on other countries.