DP History Questionbank

Description

This section focuses on modernization in the region, and its impact on foreign policy. It explores the involvement of the nations in the First World War. Modernization shaped the new nations and its effects created the basis for a major shift in the foreign policies of the region. By the end of the century, for example, the United States played a more active role in world affairs, and in the affairs of Latin America in particular, thus transforming inter-American relations. When the First World War broke out in Europe, several American countries were involved in the conflict. When the war ended, its impact was felt in the economic, social and foreign policies of the participating countries.

• United States’ expansionist foreign policies: political, economic, social and ideological reasons

• Spanish–American War: causes and effects (1898)

• United States’ foreign policies: the Big Stick; Dollar Diplomacy; Moral Diplomacy; applications and impact on the region

• United States and the First World War: from neutrality to involvement; reasons for US entry into the First World War; Wilson’s peace ideals and the struggle for ratification of the Versailles Treaty in the United States; significance of the war for the United States’ hemispheric status

• Involvement and participation of either Canada or one Latin American country in the First World War: reasons for and/or against participation; nature of participation

• Impact of the First World War on two countries of the Americas: economic, political, social, and foreign policies

Directly related questions

• 16N.3op2.HL.TZ0.10:

  “Whether it was called the Big Stick, Dollar Diplomacy or Moral Diplomacy, the impact of United States foreign policy towards Latin America was virtually the same.” Discuss.

• 16N.3op2.HL.TZ0.9:

  Examine the long and short-term causes of the Spanish–American War (1898).