Good Neighbor Policy Notes Comic Strip (2)
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- The Good Neighbor Policy was a policy of the United States Administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during 1933-45, with the goal of strengthening relations with Latin America and hemispheric solidarity against external threats.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.”
- By 1933, the world was in the Great Depression. The Good Neighbor Policy allowed the U.S. to revise trade relations with Latin American countries. These trade agreements were aimed at bolstering the U.S. economy.
- The economy needs help!
- Under this economic element of the Good Neighbor Policy, U.S. exports to Latin America doubled by 1940.
- The policy is helping our country.
- The policy brought Latin America and the U.S. into a military alliance. The Good Neighbor Policy was to counter the growing threat of the Axis Powers to the Western Hemisphere.
- The Good Neighbor Policy aimed to wean those countries away from their economic and diplomatic links with the Axis Powers and bring them into the orbit of the U.S. and the Allied Powers during the war.
- The Good Neighbor Policy not only helped the U.S. replace its dwindling Axis-power economic trade with that of the largest and wealthiest Latin American countries, but it also brought those countries into a military alliance with the U.S.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- This was a good idea!
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