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Our War of 1812 with Great Britain was fought in part to annex Canada.
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placed all of North and South America off limits for new European colonization.
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In 1846, 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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The 1898 Spanish-American War was fought to expand our sphere of influence in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
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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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Cuban independence, [and] the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, liberty, and individual freedom....” Acting under the Platt Amendment, the United States intervened militarily in Cuban affairs in 1906-1909, 1912, and 1917-1922.
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From 1914-1917, the United States intervened militarily in Mexico, including the capture of Vera Cruz and General John Pershing’s northern expedition, in response to Pancho Villa’s raids.
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The United States occupied Haiti militarily from 1915-1934 in response to chronic political instability there.
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We occupied the Dominican Republic militarily from 1916-1924 in response to threatened insurrections that threatened our interests.
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he United States occupied Nicaragua militarily from 1926-1933, including fighting the rebel forces of Cesar Sandino against a Nicaraguan government we supported.
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In 1954, the United States overthrew the Socialist government of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz in favor of a genocidal military dictatorship.
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In 1961, the United States launched the ill-starred Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
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In 1962, the United States quarantined the shipment of Soviet offensive missiles to Cuba to force the dismantling of Soviet missiles already there when the United States had Jupiter nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles aimed at the USSR along its border with Turkey.
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In 1965, the United States dispatched troops to the Dominican Republic to prevent the restoration to power of a political leader we opposed, Juan Bosch.
