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Articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress. The European powers were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest. (back off policy :D)
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Clear in his inaugural address. FDR emphasized cooperation and trade rather than military force to maintain stability in the hemisphere
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Democratic Party
VP : J. N. Garner, H. A. Wallace, H. S. Truman -
a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939
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For these farmworkers, the agreement guaranteed decent living conditions (sanitation, adequate shelter, and food) and a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour, as well as protections from forced military service, and guaranteed that a part of wages was to be put into a private savings account in Mexico; it also allowed the importation of contract laborers from Guam as a temporary measure during the early phases of World War II
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Democratic Party
VP : A. W. Barkley -
= Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR)
An attack against one is to be considered an attack against them all; this was known as the "hemispheric defense" doctrine -
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to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas
"multilateral regional body focused on human rights, electoral oversight, social and economic development, and security in the Western Hemisphere", -
Began with coup d'état
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Republican Party
VP : R. Nixon -
he result of a CIA covert operation code-named PBSuccess. It deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954
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Democratic Party
VP : L. B. Johnson
Assassinated 22 nov 1963 -
an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order of President John F. Kennedy
its official goal is to assist developing countries by providing skilled workers in fields such as education, health, entrepreneurship, women's empowerment, and community development. -
By JFK, aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America
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major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba
Key people : Castro, JFK, Khrushchev -
Democratic Party
VP : H. Humphrey -
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the overthrow of the Brazilian president João Goulart by a military coup, in the form of a military rebellion, the declaration of vacancy in the presidency by the National Congress on April 2, the formation of a military junta (the Supreme Command of the Revolution) and the exile of the president
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Republican Party
VP : S. T. Agnew, G. Ford -
a global campaign, led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the United States
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Republican Party
VP : N. Rockerfeller -
Democratic Party
VP : ??? -
= the Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal // Néutrality Treaty
Treaty 1 : the U.S. retained the permanent right to defend the canal from any threat that might interfere with its continued neutral service to ships of all nations
Treaty 2 : provided that as from 12:00 on December 31, 1999, Panama would assume full control of canal operations and become primarily responsible for its defense -
Republican Party
VP : G.H.W. Bush -
The United States invasion of Grenada began at dawn on 25 October 1983. The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada, 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation within a few days
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codenamed Operation Just Cause, began in mid-December 1989 during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. The primary purpose of the invasion was to depose the de facto ruler of Panama, General Manuel Noriega, who was wanted by U.S. authorities for racketeering and drug trafficking
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Republican Party
VP : D. Quayle -
national reform of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. It increased total, overall immigration to allow 700,000 immigrants to come to the U.S. per year for the fiscal years 1992–94, and 675,000 per year after that. It provided a family-based immigration visa, created five distinct employment based visas, categorized by occupation, and a diversity visa program that created a lottery to admit immigrants
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Democratic Party
VP : Al Gore -
an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
Replaced in 2020 withUSMCA -
Origiannly conceived in 1999 by Pastrana & Clinton.
The official objectives of Plan Colombia were to end the Colombian armed conflict by increasing funding and training of Colombian military and para-military forces and creating an anti-cocaine strategy to eradicate coca cultivation -
Republican Party
VP : D. Cheney -
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a free trade agreement (legally a treaty under international law). Originally, the agreement encompassed the United States and the Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and was called CAFTA. In 2004, the Dominican Republic joined the negotiations, and the agreement was renamed CAFTA-DR
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a security cooperation agreement among the United States, the government of Mexico and the countries of Central America, with the declared aim of combating the threats of drug trafficking, transnational organized crime and money laundering. The assistance includes training, equipment and intelligence.
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Democratic Party
VP : Joe Biden -
Ending the so-called "wet-foot/dry foot" policy, which was put in place more than twenty years ago and was designed for a different era. Cuban nationals who attempt to enter the United States illegally and do not qualify for humanitarian relief will be subject to removal, consistent with U.S. law and enforcement priorities. By taking this step, we are treating Cuban migrants the same way we treat migrants from other countries.
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created one of the world's largest free trade zones,[11] spanning roughly 500 million people and totaling over $26 trillion in GDP (PPP)
resulted from renegotiations between the NAFTA member states beginning in 2017