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with Great Britain was fought in part to annex Canada.
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it 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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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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helped the overthrow of Hawaii’s monarchy. Annexation followed five years later.
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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. Among other things, they required granting the United States a permanent naval base at Guantanamo Bay, and authorizing us to intervene in Cuban affairs for “the preservation of Cuban independence"
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to secure its independence from Colombia, and to negotiate a treaty to construct and exercise sovereignty over the Panama Canal.
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including the capture of Vera Cruz and General John Pershing’s northern expedition, in response to Pancho Villa’s raids
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in response to threatened insurrections that threatened our interests.
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including fighting the rebel forces of Cesar Sandino against a Nicaraguan government we supported.
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Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz in favor of a genocidal military dictatorship.
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invasion of Cuba to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
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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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prevent the restoration to power of a political leader we opposed, Juan Bosch.
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Salvador Allende because we opposed his Marxist-Socialist politics.
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fight the Sandinista government of Nicaragua because of its political hostility to the United States.
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oppose a Marxist government.
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the name of restoring democracy. “Haitian democracy,” however, has been an oxymoron for two centuries.
