The Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs
• 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
• The 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; the 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
The Great Depression in the Americas
• The Great Depression: political and economic causes in the Americas
• Nature and efficacy of solutions in the United States: Hoover; Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal; critics of the New Deal
• Canada: Mackenzie King and RB Bennett
• Latin America’s responses to the Depression: either G Vargas or the Concordancia in Argentina; Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) or any relevant case study of a Latin American country
• Impact of the Great Depression on society: African Americans, women, minorities
• The Great Depression and the arts: photography, the movie industry, the radio, literary currents
The Second World War and the Americas
• Hemispheric reactions to the events in Europe: inter-American diplomacy; cooperation and neutrality; Franklin D Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy, its application, and effects
• The diplomatic and/or military role of two countries in the Second World War
• Social impact of the Second World War on African Americans, Native Americans, women, and minorities; conscription
• Treatment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians
• Impact of technological developments and the beginning of the atomic age
• Economic and diplomatic effects of the Second World War in one country of the Americas