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Roosevelt felt that it was the responsibility of the United States to police the other countries into peace. He used the "big stick" (U.S. military) as a way of stabilizing order primarily in North American and East coast European countries.

(I learned this in my junior year of high school...it's been a while but I believe this to be accurate.)

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Roosevelt used the "big stick" because he believed he had it to use. The US had proved a few years before that its navy could stand up to Spain and that the army and marines could hold its own its own in small-scale land wars. He believed that the US should continues its policy established by the Monroe Doctrine decades before to protect American countries from foreign intervention or take-over. The problem in his day was more from economic threats from foreign countries trying to collect debts than from dreams of colonization, but Roosevelt saw a parallel.

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Roosevelt believed the United States had a responsibility to "civilize" other nations.

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I suppose he thought it was an effective way to negotiate and he had the big stick available. He undoubtedly preferred to negotiate from strength .

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