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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Louisville, 2003. / Department of History. Vita. "December 2003." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-182).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2005. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0306. Adviser: Wendy Gamber. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Dec. 13, 2006)."

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History of Art, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0003. Adviser: Sarah L. Burns. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Dec. 13, 2006)."

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0307. Adviser: Joan Hoff. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 24, 2007)."

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2009. / Title from home page (viewed on Jul 7, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 4009. Adviser: Peter F. Guardino.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, 2005. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-12, Section: A, page: 4336. Chair: Barry Bull. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 11, 2006).

Following the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Iraq invaded Iran resulting in a costly war from 1980 to 1988, which threatened American interests in the Persian Gulf. From the outset, the stated official American policy was strict neutrality, but this was not the case. The war had provided the United States with an opportunity to improve relations with Iraq, particularly alter Iran reversed the Iraqi invasion in the summer of 1982. Because the Reagan administration could not let Iraq collapse, the United States tilted heavily towards Iraq in defiance of its stated policy. Interestingly, the tilt towards Iraq did not stop the Reagan administration from secretly dealing with Iran in 1985. Consequently, the disclosure of these dealings resulted in the buildup of American naval forces in the region to protect the shipment of oil, and eventually the use of force to end the conflict in 1988.

Since his first term, Franklin D. Roosevelt presented the Good Neighbor Policy as a remedy for past wrongs (such as military intervention) done to Latin America. After 1935, however, Roosevelt used the Good Neighbor Policy to achieve his internationalist goals in the realm of economic and military cooperation. Part I, dealing with economics, shows that the Roosevelt administration began waging economic warfare in Europe, the Far East and the Americas against the revisionist powers as early as 1934 and that the trade offensive in Latin America was part of a wider policy of economic aggression. Part II argues that the Roosevelt administration actively sought Latin America's cooperation in military matters after 1935. As this thesis will show, the Roosevelt administration was interested in Latin America's strategic location because of its close proximity to the West African coast and as producer of strategic raw materials. Therefore, Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy sought to establish bases in Latin America to secure supply routes to Africa and to integrate Latin America's primary economy into the U.S. war economy.

This thesis examines a constitutional amendment adopted by the State of Maine in 1893 as part of an electoral reform package. It stated that any man who could not read the State Constitution in English or write his name on or after January 3, 1893 was not qualified to vote. Although some of the amendment's supporters claimed the measure would raise the quality of the state electorate, most supported it because it targeted immigrants, more particularly, French Canadian immigrants. Anglo-Republicans who supported the amendment discriminated against French-Canadians, who were Catholic, spoke French, and chose acculturation rather than assimilation. The amendment was meant to disenfranchise a large proportion of these voters, as many of them were illiterate, French speaking migrants. However, the impact of the amendment proved to be limited. It did not affect Franco-American allegiances to politicians or political parties they thought best supported their wants and needs. This may be why the amendment was quickly forgotten and is not mentioned in any published history of Maine. Statistics collected from the 1910 census, English and French language newspapers of Lewiston, and an out of state newspaper provide much of the primary sources for this work.