Evaluate the effects of Franklin D Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy in the Americas.

Candidates will make an appraisal of the effects of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy by weighing up its strengths and limitations. They may consider the effects on the US as well as other countries in the Americas. Issues that may be assessed include the repudiation of the right of intervention in Latin American internal affairs, the withdrawal of US military forces from Nicaragua and Haiti, and the implementation of reciprocal tariff agreements to achieve lower rates. Some candidates may argue that the response of countries to ally with the US in the Second World War is evidence of the policy’s success, but it may also be argued that the war, rather than the policy, increased trade with the US and brought a new wave of economic intervention.