The USA played a big role in Cuba’s economy after 1875. From the time of the 1898 Spanish-American war until 1959, the U.S. also played an important political role in Cuba's internal and foreign policies. During 1898 the USA declared war on Spain. In 1898 the USA manages to defete Spain which gives up all claimes to cuba and surrenders it to the US. In 1902 Cuba becomes independent with Tomas Estrada Palma but the Platt Amendment keeps the island under US protection and gives the US the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
Examine the role of the United States in the outcome of the Cuban revolution= The ties and tensions between Cuba and America are historic; with America’s aid Cuba was able to assert its independence from the Spanish colonies. Yet the United States were eyeing Cuba carefully, they saw not only economic and commercial opportunities but they saw their manifested destiny of expansion. As explained by future President John Quincy in 1823, Cuba is a natural appendage of the North American continent . There are many ways in which the United States affected the outcome of the Cuban revolution but the main three is the economic and political influence the United states had over Cuba since the 1700s, the use of containment and other cold war policies implemented by the united states which forced Cuba into the arms of the Soviet union dramatically influencing the outcome of the revolution and Americas actions in Latin America and elsewhere in the world. Cuba is located only 90 miles off Florida with harbours in strategic position for enemies to threaten war or conversely for America to use as a first line of defence.
Thus, they conducted a lobby to convince the American leaders of the superiority of the Panama Canal route over Nicaragua because there were volcanoes there, whereas Panama did not have any volcanoes. In the senate vote taken on June 19, 1902, was 42-34 in favor of Panama. Panama was an isolated province, and its inhabitants often rebelled against the government of Colombia. While the Colombian senate was debating and rejecting the canal treaty with the United States, a group of Panamanians was plotting a revolution. Although Roosevelt did order U.S. Navy ships in the Caribbean and Pacific to sail nearer to Panama, he was in certain ways, manipulated by Bunau-Varilla, who suggested that a revolution, establishing an independent Panama, might be the way to secure the elusive canal treaty and was conspiring with the Panamanians was plotting the revolution.
Evolution of the American Revolution: Causation to Sovereignty The American Revolution is described as the political uprising of the thirteen British Colonies of North America against the British Empire during the last half of the eighteenth century. Officially, the conflict lasted from 1775, starting with the “shot heard round the world,” to 1783 when the British Government recognized the independence of the colonies as one sovereign nation. The Revolutionary War was preceded by politically, socially, and economically related ideals and events that altogether inspired the unification of the independent colonies and their separation from the British Empire. The key influences of the American Revolution include: the French and Indian War; the Navigation, Currency, Stamp Tax, Declaratory, Townsend Duties, Tea, and Intolerable Acts; as well as the political and religious ideals of the colonists. The revolutionary era for the American Colonies began around 1763 after the British removed the military threat of the French from North America during the French and Indian War, which resulted in substantial economic debt for the British Empire.
The Monroe Doctrine was presented by President Monroe in his seventh annual message to Congress in December 1823. It consists on a policy directed to Latin America in order to protect the hemisphere from European influence since American countries were following a trend of achieving their Independence. This policy has been seen with good and bad eyes throughout the 190 years of application. As we know, during this period a lot has changed and so have the focus of the policy according to the administration in place. Latin American states often see it as an Imperialistic move from the U.S. of which it was used to assert their position of a regional hegemony.
This time U.S. hoped to produce long-term stability. However, both outcomes remain obscure, and Haitian citizen is still struggling with poverty and unstable government filled with political corruption. Obviously U.S. interventions in Haiti have failure outcomes, and international relation scholars have always debating on whether or not the humanitarian intervention should take place in Haiti. This paper is on the opposite side of Haiti intervention, and I want to argue that Haitians did not want foreign intervention; Americans were in Haiti because they wanted to be there, not because they had been invited, and they remained there only by military force. I try to argue against the intervention on the following aspect: both intervention tries to teach democracy with undemocratic means, in other words the interventions are based self-interests of nations, especially U.S.’s, not the interest of Haiti citizen.
In the late 1800s, many Americans thought building a canal across Central America would help the United States to improve America's worldwide trade and military abilities. 13. The Philippines fought the United States just after the Spanish-American War because the United States had kept the Philippines as a colony, and it wanted independence. 14. The fighting in the Spanish-American War lasted for only about sixteen weeks.
The Monroe Doctrine was the statement of U.S. policy toward Latin America. Scholars have interpreted the doctrine as the U.S. declaration of intent to be the principal power of the Western hemisphere.After Latin American nations overthrew Spanish and Portuguese rule in the early 1800s, the United States feared other European nations would try to claim the newly independent nations as colonies.President James Monroe's speech to Congress in late 1823 is known as the Monroe Doctrine. He declared the Americas off limits to any future European colonization and announced America's intention to stay out of European affairs.U.S. presidents invoked the Monroe Doctrine throughout the 1800s. For instance, James K. Polk told Europeans not to interfere in the U.S. dispute with Mexico over California and Texas in 1845.President Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904 proclaimed the U.S. would intervene militarily in Latin American nations considered unstable.
Mexican War of Independence An article written by Jesus F. de la Teja, "MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE," Handbook of Texas Online depicts the series of events that took place to end the Spanish rule in Mexico. There are many causes of the revolution of Mexico, some of the causes being the lack of political stability and economic reasons. Another cause of the Mexican revolution was the exploitation and mistreatment of the poor. The middle class unable to own land due to not having any wealth contributed to the political instability. Father Michael Hidalgo is considered an important figure in the history of Mexican Independence as he is the one to begin the rebellion against bad government and Spaniards.
After the Napoleonic Wars ended, Prussia, Austria, and Russia established the Holy Alliance to protect monarchism. “In particular, the Holy Alliance authorized military incursions to re-establish Bourbon rule over Spain and its colonies, which were establishing their independence.” [2] If Spain was allowed to reestablish control over its previous colonies, Great Britain would have been disconnected from its commercial trade with the territory. “President James Monroe’s secretary of state, John Quincy Adams, first proposed that the United States make an independent announcement of its opposition to new European colonies in Latin America.” [3] President James Monroe decided to reject the British proposal to make a joint British-American warning to Spain and issue an independent proclamation. Although this was the primary object of the Monroe Doctrine, the instantaneous cause for the assertion of the Monroe Doctrine was a Russian endeavor to restrict access to the northwestern region of North America. The results of the Monroe Doctrine had many affects on history.