1. Provide a moral “report card” on U.S. policy toward the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1945.  What did the United States do well?  What did the United States do poorly?  For your thesis, provide an overall synthesis that takes into account both sides of this debate while still making clear where you ultimately stand.  In answering the question, be sure always to make clear how you are defining “morality” in international relations.  Also be sure to draw on numerous specific examples from Roorda’s book.

2. Only four presidents have their own major memorials around the National Mall in Washington: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and FDR.  If Roosevelt had been just a two-term president (serving January 1933 to January 1941), would he still have the reputation as one of U.S. history’s most important presidents?  If not, what would his reputation be?  Answer this question by drawing on our class materials on the Great Depression and New Deal and on the Good Neighbor Policy (and his other foreign policies).  Don’t focus on Roosevelt’s World War II years but instead offer an assessment of how effective and lasting his impact was on U.S. domestic and foreign affairs in his first two terms.  For evidence, a good answer should draw on Roorda’s book, Adams’s article, and the New Deal readings, as well as any relevant class lecture material and handouts.