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In 1812 we had a war with Great Britain in Annex Canada.
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In 1812 we had a war with Great Britain in annex Canada
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Monroe Doctrine placed all of North and South America off limits for new European colonization. It asserted that the United States might resort to war against any European nation that interfered with the independence of newly formed states in Central and South America that had emerged from rebellions against Spanish or Portuguese colonization.
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President James K. Polk justified the Mexican-American War to expand our borders by falsely asserting that an American soldier had been killed on American soil by the Mexican military. General Ulysses S. Grant condemned the war as “wicked” in his War Memoirs.
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In 1893, the United States collaborated in the overthrow of Hawaii’s monarchy. Annexation followed five years later.
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Spanish-American War was fought to expand our sphere of influence in the Caribbean and the Pacific. We acquired the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. We occupied Cuba militarily until it enshrined the conditions of the Platt Amendment in the Cuban Constitution.
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The United States intervened militarily in Panama from 1903-1914 to secure its independence from Colombia, and to negotiate a treaty to construct and exercise sovereignty over the Panama Canal.
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Acting under the Platt Amendment, the United States intervened militarily in Cuban affairs in 1906-1909, 1912, and 1917-1922.
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The United States militarily in Mexico, including the capture of Vera Cruz and general Johns Pershing's northern expedition.
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United States occupied Haiti militarily in response to chronic political instability there.
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We occupied the Dominican Republic militarily in response to threatened insurrections that threatened our interests.
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The United States occupied Nicaragua militarily including fighting the rebel forces of Cesar Sandino against a Nicaraguan government we supported.
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The United States launched the ill-starred Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
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We collaborated in the overthrow and killing of Chilean President Salvador Allende because we opposed his Marxist-Socialist politics.
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The United States dispatched troops to Haiti in the name of restoring democracy. “Haitian democracy,” however, has been an oxymoron for two centuries.
