Navy Museum Lunchtime Lecture – From Gunboats to Good Neighbors: U.S. Naval Diplomacy in South America, 1919-1945
National Museum of the United States Navy Washington Navy Yard, WashingtonDr. Joel Christenson, recipient of the Naval History and Heritage Command's 2011 Rear Admiral John D. Hayes Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in U.S. Navy History, will examine the considerable role naval power played in United States foreign relations with Latin American during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, as Washington abandoned armed interventionism and began pursuing the policy