Between The Wars 1918-1941

Latin America: Intervention in our Backyard (1x10)

Air date: Jun 07, 1978

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 of intervention was abolished.