Examine the application and effects of Franklin D Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy.

The question requires that candidates consider the interrelationship between the application and effects of Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy. Candidates may see the application as an extension of the improved relations established by the Hoover administration. However, they must focus on the Roosevelt presidency. The Good Neighbor Policy, which was implemented in 1933, pledged that the US would stop unilateral interventions in Latin American countries. It was reinforced at the Montevideo Conference in December 1933 and at other hemispheric conferences before and during the Second World War. The policy resulted in the withdrawal of US Marines from Nicaragua and Haiti, and terminated the Platt Amendment with Cuba. It also led to reciprocal trade agreements between the US and several Latin American countries. Some candidates may suggest that the policy enabled negotiations, rather than military action, between the US and Mexico after the seizure of American oil companies in Mexico.