Good Neighbor Policy

American  

noun

1. a diplomatic policy of the U.S., first presented in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt, for the encouragement of friendly relations and mutual defense among the nations of the Western Hemisphere.

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Good Neighbor policy Cultural  

1. A United States foreign policy doctrine, adopted by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, designed to improve relations with Latin America. A reaction to the exploitative dollar diplomacy of the early 1900s, the Good Neighbor policy encouraged interaction between the United States and Latin America as equals. In the post– World War II era, however, the United States has often reverted to dollar diplomacy and gunboat diplomacy to impose its will on the countries of Latin America.

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Example Sentences

Truman: Teddy's cousin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, publicly renounced the Monroe Doctrine and promised a hands-off attitude towards Latin America, which came to be known as the Good Neighbor Policy.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2021

They remained until 1934, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled them out as part of his new Good Neighbor Policy, which called for regional nonintervention.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019

As an indirect product of the Good Neighbor Policy, by which the United States invested in South American ties, the movie had incentive to avoid negative portrayals.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2016

Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary was replaced by Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy, a conscious attempt to win friends to the south by reducing this nation’s political and military interventions in the region.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

Hull worked hard to promote the Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America, but had a harder time persuading Nazi Germany to be a good neighbor.

From Time Magazine Archive