The Good Neighbor Policy

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1. What was the Good Neighbor Policy? Provide one way in which the United States government began to reduce Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy? The Good Neighbor Policy was introduced by Franklin D. Roosevelt to increase good relations with countries in the western hemisphere, like Canada and those in Latin America. The Good Neighbor Policy itself was a reduction to Roosevelt’s Big Stick Diplomacy. The Good Neighbor policy did not see the justification of direct intervention in the affair of other nations, whereas Roosevelt did. So, this policy reduced direct involvement that was supported by Big Stick Diplomacy.
2. "The Good Neighbor Policy is simply a continuation of the old diplomatic methods of Wilson and Taft." To what extent do you agree
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To what extent was American involvement in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic a beginning to the Cold War? Explain. American involvement in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic allowed specific dictatorships to exist in these countries as long as they supported specific US ideals. One of these ideals was the idea that these dictators were anti-communist. This can be seen as the beginning of the Cold War because it occurred as a result of America’s disputes with communism. At the time of US involvement in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, Russia had undergone a political uprising orchestrated by Germany, causing Russia to transition to a communist government.
4. Why did the United States support the seemingly ridiculous system of the Dawes Plan? Why didn't the United States simply forgive British and French
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The conference was a compromise that detached Great Britain from Japan and created future stability. There were motives involving trade, as the US was able to convince Japan to accept less weight with battleships than Britain and the USA. Also, it involved motives for peace, as Japan promised to remove troops from an area of China and the US agreed to not strengthen military presence in Guam.
6. Explain one strength and one weakness of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. The Kellogg-Briand Pact was strengthened because it promoted compromise between nations and created an international agreement that prevented war. However, the pact was weakened because it was vaguely worded and meaningless. There was no option of sanctions for signatories who broke the pact.
7. To what extent was the United States truly isolated after WWI? Provide at least one historical example and one reference to a historian's analysis in the development of your