Topic 6, Lesson 6: What was Roosevelts 'Good Neighbour' Policy?

Topic 6, Lesson 6: What was Roosevelts 'Good Neighbour' Policy?

FDR’s ‘Good Neighbour’ Foreign Policy Aims

• Roosevelt encouraged economic and diplomatic co-operation through the idea of the ‘Good Neighbour’ policy

• Roosevelt saw his policy as transforming the Monroe Doctrine into arrangements for mutual hemispheric action against aggressors

Topic 6, Lesson 6: What was Roosevelts 'Good Neighbour' Policy?

US 1930s Latin American Relations

• US troops left Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.

• In 1934, Congress signed a treaty with Cuba that nullified the Platt Amendment which had authorised the US occupation of Cuba.

• The US did retain one naval base at Guantanamo (Cuba).

• By 1938, the Good Neighbour policy had led to ten treaties with Latin American countries resulting in huge trade increases for the US.

• Roosevelt passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act in 1934 which repealed several of the 1920s isolationist trade policies so the US could compete better in foreign trade.

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