The Roosevelt Corollary Summary

Roosevelt Corollary Summary:

     The Roosevelt Corollary was to protect Panama from eastern powers who wanted to influence people in the western hemisphere. The issue was Europe wanting to impact Panama which Panama doesn’t want, so they ask for Roosevelt and Americas help to defend them. I will tell you one technique being used, this is labeling. The cartoonist labeled the big stick as the New Diplomacy, Roosevelt holding a paper that was called nation, and all of the countries offering something to Roosevelt. The other technique is exaggeration. The exaggerated Roosevelt’s size to be about half of Europe while the people who were offering him goods were small and tiny. As you can see the cartoonist’s message was that we were going to defend Panama from Europe, who wanted to go and influence them. The proof of that is how Panama is begging Roosevelt to keep them away from Europe’s influence while the Europeans is begging him to let them through to Panama. He uses the big stick as a policy to stop Europe from interfering in the Western hemisphere. While other people opinions, especially American, they would have thought it was right to protect Panama since they had the canal. Europeans would want our help as they beg and sacrifice some of their goods just to be able to influence Panama, but Roosevelt would still not allow this. The American Imperialism was shown as Roosevelt was showing that we will not interfere with Europe problems again. Roosevelt was in between Panama and Europe as a way to defend Panama.
Even though Europe caused problems, we were able to still have great trade with no battles.

Roosevelt Corollary MLA:

"The Roosevelt Corollary." Modern American History. Word Press, 2016. Web. 9 Feb. 2016. <http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjVjceW3IbLAhVQymMKHQyPCMEQjB0IBg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.baruch.cuny.edu%2Fhis1005spring2011%2F2011%2F03%2F02%2Fthe-roosevelt-corollary%2F&psig=AFQjCNG5dCeHSNmVJXwdYUYGWSKVcskzLw&ust=1456070624695785>.