IB History of the Americas-

Group 6
Niyanthesh Reddy, Abhishek Patel,
Christina
Good Neighbor Policy
Good Neighbor Policy, popular name for the Latin American policy
pursued by the administration of the U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Suggested by the presidents commitment to the policy of the good
neighbor (first inaugural address, March 4, 1933), the approach marked a
departure from traditional American interventionism. Through the
diplomacy of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the United States repudiated
privileges abhorrent to Latin Americans. The United States renounced its
right to unilaterally intervene in the internal affairs of other nations at the
Montevideo Conference (December 1933); the Platt Amendment, which
sanctioned U.S. intervention in Cuba, was abrogated (1934); and the U.S.
Marines were withdrawn from Haiti (August 1934).
The policys success was measured in part by the rapidity with which most
Latin American states rallied to the Allies during World War II. After the
war, however, U.S. anticommunist policies in Europe and Asia led to
renewed distrust in the Americas and the gradual lapse of the Good
Neighbor Policy.

Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover had an admirable reservoir of experience in
international affairs when he became President in March 1929. He
had traveled the world extensively as a mining engineer, served on
President Wilson's delegation to the peace talks at the end of World
War I, and worked on international trade issues as secretary of
commerce. He was no American provincial.
As President, Hoover's foreign policies were conditioned by the
Great Depression. Indeed, by the fall of 1930, Hoover was blaming
America's economic malaise on international, and especially
European, economic realities. As a result, he looked increasingly for
ways to improve the international economy as the Depression
deepened. At the same time, Hoover pushed for disarmament
treaties, rethought American relations with the countries of South
and Central America, and confronted Japanese aggression in China

European Immigration

The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and
west between 1915 and 1960. During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major
northern cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and New York. By World War II the migrants
continued to move North but many of them headed west to Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco,
Portland and Seattle.
The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners
moved north. In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south, followed by 398,000 blacks in
the 1930s. Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western
cities.

The economic motivations for migration were a combination of the desire to escape oppressive
economic conditions in the south and the promise of greater prosperity in the north. Since their
Emancipation from slavery, southern rural blacks had suffered in a plantation economy that offered
little chance of advancement. While a few blacks were lucky enough to purchase land, most were
sharecroppers, tenant farmers, or farm labors, barely subsiding from year to year. When World War
I created a huge demand for workers in northern factories, many southern blacks took this
opportunity to leave the oppressive economic conditions in the south.
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US Status in Latin America

The Banana Wars

The United Fruit Company

US Fleet

Banana Fruit Company & Honduras

Mexico Relations