Big stick ideology, big stick diplomacy, or big stick policy<span> refers to U.S. President </span>Theodore Roosevelt<span>'s </span>foreign policy<span>: "speak softly, and carry a big stick."</span>
President Wilson unsuccessfully bets away his dreams for peace in Europe after World War I when he trusted the Senate would approve the Treaty of Versailles regardless of the possibility that it contained an agreement to set up the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, drove America through World War I and made the Versailles Treaty's "Fourteen Points," the remainder of which was making a League of Nations to guarantee world peace.
The foreign policy issue that was a motivation for American intervention in Vietnam was the idea of "containment" which sought to contain communist expansion where it was, as opposed to attempting to eradicate it at the source.
In general, the problems faced by settlers in Texas were somewhat like those of the colonists in the 13 British colonies in the sense that there were very limited resources (food, materials, etc.)