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brought to you by the good neighbor policy a solemn

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promise to keep the noise down a police to a

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minimum All right which of the following promised no further

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military intervention in latin american affairs and hear the potential

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answers All right well the u s has a long

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history of saying more than just howdy to our friends

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down south let's See which of the following pledge the

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big old stop sign to our meddling in latin america

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did a the truman doctrine promising into military intervention in

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latin american affairs Well not quite The truman doctrine contained

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a whole bunch of promises to contain the spread of

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communism And while truman's i was mostly fixed on troubles

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across the atlantic there were certainly concerns with communism's influencing

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lands much closer to home We're talking to you cuba

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So it isn't a was be dollar diplomacy The end

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of the latin american intervention wrote well dollar diplomacy was

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the financial brainchild of president taft We'll put less of

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an emphasis on military intervention in favor of encouraging american

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investment in latin america but even though dollars were flowing

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in americans still held a more explosive charge as an

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option of last resort Good latin american intervention have ended

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with sea The monroe doctrine well that's where it all

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began you know Faced with the threat of european intervention

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in latin america president monroe told those stuffy old world

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guys that they weren't hip enough to jive with the

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new world We have come up that that we're hip

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right Really look at us We're totally hip What about

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d The roosevelt corollary to roosevelt corollary was teddy roosevelt's

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one up on the monroe doctrine He not only told

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european countries to stay that out but if they did

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try and come in the united states would use their

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military might teo show him who's Right So if these

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finger was just hovering on the detonator that means e

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the good neighbor policy promised no further military intervention in

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latin american affairs The good neighbor in this case it's

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president franklin roosevelt who promised to kick our pesky habit

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of military intervention in the region Yeah it was to

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encourage us investment opportunities by earning latin america's trust and

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later to keep latin american countries on our side during

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world war two So is the correct answer today We

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should probably refer to this as the not so good

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neighbor policy since the us ended up overseeing and facilitating

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overthrows of elected governments and meddling in civil conflicts during

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the forty years following world war two But hey all's

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fair in love and war and latin american policy right

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