Between the Wars S01E10 · Latin America: Intervention in Our Own Backyard

Overview

FDR's "The Good Neighbor Policy", his greatest foreign policy success, was a key development in reversing the U.S. imperialistic attitude toward Latin America. For over a century, the Monroe Doctrine had been invoked to justify intervention in the Caribbean, Central, and South America. Pan-American relationships deteriorated rapidly until 1933, when the policy in intervention was abolished.

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1. 1 1. Versailles: The First Peace1978-04-05 · 30mPresident Woodrow Wilson's idealistic hopes for world peace through collective security clash at Versailles with the harsh old-world real-politik of Europe, which wanted to punish
2. 2 2. Return to Isolationism1978-04-12 · 30mThe ultimate failure of Woodrow Wilson destroys himself in his desperate struggle for the League of Nations. The President and the Senate fight for control of American foreign poli
3. 3 3. The First SALT Talks1978-04-19 · 30mThe forces favoring peace through disarmament clash with the forces for peace through military strength. In 1921, the world's first major disarmament conference limits the post war
4. 4 4. Radio, Racism and Foreign Policy1978-04-26 · 30mDisillusioned by the horrors of World War I, the U.S. tries to isolate herself from the rest of the world. Strict immigration quotas are imposed and a mistrust of foreigners and mi
5. 5 5. The Great Depression and Foreign Affairs1978-05-03 · 30mThe Depression is a traumatic national experience which shatters U.S. self-confidence and paralyzes foreign policy, thus leading to further isolationism. The world-wide depression
6. 6 6. FDR and Hitler: the Rise to Power1978-05-10 · 30m"The individual does matter in history" -- a contrast of the style of FDR and Hitler shows how technological change and individual charisma can change history. FDR uses a new mediu
7. 7 7. FDR and Hitler: The Dynamics of Power1978-05-17 · 30mBoth Hitler and Roosevelt appreciated the value of mass communications. FDR began his series of "fireside chats" to reassure and inform the people while Hitler assigned Josef Goebb
8. 8 8. America in the Pacific: The Clash of Two Cultures1978-05-24 · 30mThis overview of U.S.-Japanese relationships from the turn of the century until 1933 is a story of conflict. Japan emerged from World War I as a major power, but American diplomats
9. 9 9. The Recognition of Russia: A Climate of Mutual Distrust1978-05-31 · 30mFrom the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until the Roosevelt administration officially recognized the U.S.S.R. in the first detente in 1933, American relations with the Soviet Union w
10. 10 10. Latin America: Intervention in Our Own Backyard1978-06-07 · 30mFDR's "The Good Neighbor Policy", his greatest foreign policy success, was a key development in reversing the U.S. imperialistic attitude toward Latin America. For over a century,
11. 11 11. The Italian-Ethiopian War: Africa in World Affairs1978-06-14 · 30mThe short-lived but brutal Italian-Ethiopian War leads to an examination of Italian Fascism, the character of Mussolini and how he came to power. Mussolini ruled with apparent effe
12. 12 12. The Spanish Civil War1978-06-21 · 30mThe Spanish Civil War was a microcosm of the ideological conflict of this century. When Spanish fascists under Franco rebel against the republican government, full-scale civil war
13. 13 13. The Phony War1978-06-28 · 30mHitler's assumption that England would not go to war to defend Poland triggers World War II. As the Nazis sweep over Europe and launch their air attack on Britain, American public
14. 14 14. FDR and Churchill: The Human Partnership1978-07-05 · 30mThe close personal friendship between Roosevelt and Churchill had a profound effect on the history of the Western world. Roosevelt posted "lend-lease" as the most practical means o
15. 15 15. Japan Invades China: Crisis in the Far East1978-07-12 · 30mIn 1937 Japan was bent on establishing an empire. Encouraged by lack of Western resistance, Japan took control of French Indochina, the Dutch Indies, Burma, Malaya, and the Philipp
16. 16 16. War Comes to Pearl Harbor1978-07-19 · 30mSome of the great questions that arises from WWII is: Did FDR know in advance about Pearl Harbor? Was the Japanese attack unprovoked? FDR knew that he could not lead a divided nati