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  • Roosevelt Corollary

    Roosevelt Corollary
    2: the United States will intervene in conflicts between European countries and Latin American countries to enforce legitimate claims of the European powers.3:not only in defense of South American states in the face of European imperialism, but would also use its muscle to obtain concessions and privileges for American corporations.
  • Philippine Insurrection

    Philippine Insurrection
    The conflict arose from the struggle of the First Philippine Republic to secure independence from the United States following the latter's acquisition of the Philippines from Spain after the Spanish–American War.
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    Philippine Insurrection

  • Hay-Buanau-Varilla Treaty

    Hay-Buanau-Varilla Treaty
    2: After the collapse of the de Lesseps efforts to build the Panama Canal,Bunau-Varilla became an important shareholder of the Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Panama , which still had the concession, as well as certain valuable assets, for the building of a canal in Panama.3: The terms of the treaty stated that the United States was to receive rights to a canal zone which was to extend five miles on either side of the canal route in perpetuity
  • US occupation of the Dominican Republic

    US occupation of the Dominican Republic
    2: The US Bureau of Insular Affairs gained receivership of Dominican customs and the US became the sole foreign creditor of the country.3: The US helped the Dominican and controlled that country.
  • Cuban Intervention (1906)

    Cuban Intervention (1906)
    2: On September 29th 1906, the United States assumed military control of Cuba under the Platt Amendment, following the reelection of an American puppet government, which caused a nationalist uprising.3: The US is controlling Cuba's military. So the US is controlling the whole country.
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal
    2: One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken,France began work on the canal in 1881, but had to stop,The United States took over the project in 1904, and took a decade to complete the canal,3: The shorter, faster, and safer route to the US West Coast and to nations in and around the Pacific Ocean allowed those places to become more integrated with the world economy. And US want to control it.
  • The Great White Fleet

    The Great White Fleet
    2: The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet,3: Hoping to enforce treaties and protect overseas holdings, the US Congress appropriated funds to build American sea power.