Teaching Activities

1. For each of the five issues in the table below, note down the attitudes and policies of the various presidents who had to deal with them.

	The power of big business	Social reform movements	Civil rights for African Americans	Isolationism in America	US relations with Latin America
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Warren Harding
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt

2. Consider the foreign policies of US presidents between 1915 and 1945. For each policy, assess first the motives behind them (How much was it about imperialism? How much was it about protecting US interests?) and then evaluate the extent to which each policy was successful in achieving its objectives.