The Roosevelt Corollary

The Start of the Roosevelt Corollary
- The Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903. The Roosevelt Corollary stated that the United States were responsible for preserve order, protect life, and property in the Western Hemisphere. (The Monroe Doctrine had originally been intended to keep European nations out of Latin America, but the Roosevelt corollary was used as a justification for U.S. intervention in Latin America.)
- Roosevelt realized that if nations in the Western Hemisphere continued to have chronic problems, such as the inability to repay foreign debt, they would become targets of European invention. To preempt such action and to maintain regional stability, the President drafted his corollary: the United States would intervene in any Latin American country that manifested serious economic problems.
- . The Corollary justified certain American foreign affairs, such as the support of the Panama Rebellion and the construction of the Panama Canal.
- Teddy Roosevelt had a motto: "SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK." To Roosevelt, the big stick was the new American navy. By remaining firm in resolve and possessing the naval might to back its interests, the United States could simultaneously defend its territory and avoid war.

Events that took place because of the Corollary
- Roosevelt immediately began to put the new corollary to work. He used it to establish protectorates over Cuba and Panama, as well as to direct the United States to manage the Dominican Republic’s custom service revenues. The U.S. military (The State Department Troops), intervened in Latin Americans countries named Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, Panama and Nicaragua.
- In 1904-1905, The Roosevelt Corollary was first used in the Dominican Republic for a financial crisis prompt.
- In 1906, the United States sent troops to Cuba to stop a revolution. Their mission was to prevent fighting between the Cubans, to protect U.S. economic interests there, and to hold free elections in order to establish a new and legitimate government. America went back several times to 1916-1924.
- In 1909-1926, the most significant intervention was when the United States occupation of Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933 was part of the Banana Wars, when the US military intervened in various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934.
- The U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Haiti, 1915–34. Following the assassination of the Haitian President in July of 1915, President Woodrow Wilson sent the United States Marines into Haiti to restore order and maintain political and economic stability in the Caribbean. This occupation continued until 1934.
- in 1916, The United states was triggered by concerns about possible German use of the Dominican Republic as a base for attacks on the United States during World War I, the U.S. Government began a military occupation and administration of that country in 1916, which would last until 1924.