‘Good Neighbors’? The United States and the Americas 1900-45
Multiple Choice Questions
Exam Questions
Discussion Questions
How has American economic power influenced relations with Latin America in the 20th century?
Contrast the Good Neighbor Policy to the policies of American presidents towards Latin America before 1933.
What was “gunboat diplomacy”?
To what extent did Wilsonian idealism apply to relations with Latin America?
To what extent was American policy towards Latin America driven by United States economic interests in the region, rather than American global security concerns?
How successful was the Pan-American movement in politically uniting the hemisphere before 1945?
Why did the United States become increasingly involved in Latin American affairs from the 1890s?
How did the United States organize the western hemisphere for war in the 1930s?
How did the United States reconcile the Monroe Doctrine with internationalism in the forming of the UN?
Was Theodore Roosevelt motivated more by economic or strategic interests in pushing expansion of empire in the 1900s?
Exam Questions
How has the Monroe Doctrine been employed by the US in its relations with Latin America?
Did the Good Neighbor policy truly change the American relationship with Latin America?
Compare and contrast the Latin American policies of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt.
Weblinks
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Dip/PaW/080.html text of 1936 Declaration of Principles of Inter-American Solidarity and Cooperation, Buenos Aires.
https://literariness.org/2021/02/21/analysis-of-ruben-darios-to-roosevelt/ – text and analysis of Ruben Dario’s note to Theodore Roosevelt on US intervention in Latin America
http://www.yachana.org/teaching//resources/interventions.html – text database listing US military interventions in Latin America
http://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/good_neighbor_policy.htm – text and audio of FDR’s Good Neighbor speech
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1939v05/map-panama – explanation of Declaration of Panama 1939
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mexican-revolution-and-the-united-states/wilson-to-veracruz.html – documents on US intervention in Mexico 1914
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-statement-non-intervention-cuba – US statement of policy in Cuba 1933
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=56 – text of Theodore Roosevelt’s corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/platt-amendment – text of 1903 Platt Amendment protecting Cuban independence
Address Before the Pan American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation, Washington, D.C. | The American Presidency Project (ucsb.edu) – text of Coolidge statement at Pan-American Conference in Havana 1928
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