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This overview of U.S.-Japanese relations from the turn of the century until 1933 is a gripping story of conflict. Japan emerges from World War I as a major power, but American diplomats make little effort to understand the Asian world. The US foreign policy on Japan, including immigration quotas and protective tariffs, does little to improve relations.
From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 to the Roosevelt administration's official recognition of the U.S.S.R. in 1933, American relations with the Soviet Union are mistrustful and hostile. Cold War attitudes can be traced back to this period of national paranoia over Bolshevism.
FDR's "The Good Neighbor Policy", his greatest foreign policy success, is a key development in reversing the U.S. imperialist 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 deteriorate rapidly until 1933, when the policy of intervention is disabled.
President Theodore Roosevelt
Pancho Villa Raids US
Lindberg Takes Off on Epic Flight
Nazi-soviet Pact
Stalin Pleads - Flight for Mother Russia
Lend-Lease for the Soviets
