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Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
The corollary established the rational for all future interventions in south America such as intervention in Haitian election in the 1920s, the taking of the panama canal and interventions in cuba in the 1930s. -
Entry in WWI
This intervention represents the end of the end of the US official policy of isolationism and leads to WWII and the cold war which included literal wars such as Korea and Vietnam -
Overthrow of Mosaddegh in Iran
The first of the CIA interventions was important because it set a precedent for the overthrow of governments all over the world such as Arbenz in Guatemala, and also laid the groundwork for the revolution in Iran in 1979 and subsequent war between Iran and Iraq in which we also intervened in the form of the Iran contra affair -
Killing of Lumumba in Congo
One of the earliest CIA interventions in Africa in the aftermath of independence movements which laid the groundwork for the continued struggles with democracy in Africa throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. -
Bay of Pigs.
This is the most Iconic of the attempted interventions in Latin America and was followed by countless others including the with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua during the Carter and Reagan administrations. -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and subsequent US funding of the Mujahideen fighters led to the formation of Al Qaeda and the attacks on embassies in Africa in 1998 and the attack on September 11 and to the current war in Afghanistan -
Invasion of Iraq
Bush 1s invasion of Iraq laid the groundwork for the subsequent reinvasion and killing of Hussein which led to the current instability in the region caused by the rise of Isis. -
Libya killing of Gaddafi
Civil war and the slaughter of the civilians provoked U.S. intervention. The Arab Spring uprising led to the killing of Ghaddafi.
