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. This caused Cuba to become annoyed. In 1909 Jose Gomez becomes president following elections made by the US. This is soon tarred by corruption. In 1912 the US forces return to Cuba to put down black protests against discrimination.
Cuba had to use a Swedish ruse to safely and successfully ship sugar, an ingredient in bomb-making, to Britain and France. Finally, a reason that was very important to Cuba’s president Menocal was that U.S. support would help him continue to stay president since he declared war on Germany. One consequence of war was that the Cubans threw all Germans and Austrians into internment camps. 25,000 people were conscripted into the war and they underwent training for one year before they were sent out. As a result of the accessibility of the Cuban ports, the Cubans denied Cuban ports to German U-boats.
Latin American Studies Dominican Republic: The Enduring Impact of Trujillo’s Regime On April 24th 1965, Constitutionalists and members of the PRD (Dominican Revolutionary Party) went on a rampage throughout the streets of Santo Domingo seizing the National Palace. This domestic revolt turned into a civil war when members of the Loyalist Party decided to fight back. Four days later, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered armed American soldiers to occupy the city so that directive could be re-established. In order to understand the conflict, we first must examine the history of the country’s political structure. “The nation's almost inevitable entanglement in international conflicts afforded it little opportunity to develop autonomously.” Located in the midst of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Panama Canal, the country was left exposed to the potential and eventual occupation of some of the worlds’ most influential political powers.
In 1960 President Eisenhower game the CIA order to begin training Cuban exiles to lead resistance groups in Cuba. This was so when the United States invaders landed, there would already be a force slowing down Cuban forces. After John F. Kennedy was elected president, he was briefed on the latest plan and ended up giving the order for the Bay of Pigs invasion. About 1500 Cuban exiles landed on April 19, 1961. They were hoping to get support from the local population and intended to cross the island to Havana.
The man who started it all was Porfirio Díaz. Díaz seemed promising at the time of his election in 1877, but he quickly turned into a power hungry dictator that would defy the constitution and refuse to relinquish his presidential power for seven terms. Alan Knight wrote in his article entitled THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION, “Like many of Mexico’s nineteenth-century rulers, Díaz was an army officer who had come to power by a coup. Unlike his predecessors, however, he established a stable political system, in which the formally representative Constitution of 1857 was bypassed, local political bosses (caciques) controlled elections, political opposition, and public order, while a handful of powerful families and their clients monopolized economic and political provinces. The whole system was fuelled and lubricated by the new money pumped into the economy by rising foreign trade and investment.” (p.29) Because only a small group controlled the government and elections, Díaz was able to imprison or disempower political opponents, and fabricate election results.
At the same time they tried to create a strong non-communist South Vietnam under the leadership of Diem. By the late 1950s, the communist rebels in South Vietnam declared a revolutionary struggle against Diem, so as to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. In turn, by the 1960s the USA became more and more alarmed at this prospect, leading to further intervention in Vietnam to stop this. When Kennedy was inaugurated he inherited many crises around the globe, the most pertinent was the loss of Cuba. After the well known Bay of Pigs fiasco, he felt he was advised that he needed a foreign policy success.
Monroe was extremely active as an anti-federalist delegate and helped prevent ratification of the United States Constitution stating it gives too much power to central government. In 1790 Monroe was elected to the Senate of the United States Congress and had many success including helping negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Later during the War of 1812 Monroe held many critical positions including Secretary of State and Secretary of War under the then current President James Madison. 1816 being the next election year, Monroe ran for President of the United States and won with over 80 percent of the electoral vote. James Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States.
James Adams believed that the primary motive for people to move to America was to not follow the King’s laws. This document does not disprove what Winthrop says, but does cause an issue to bring up an argument to find which ones right. Those are some of the reasons why people chose to, or were forced to move to colonial America. There are many reasons why people moved there. Some moved there to be free, while others were
He believed in democracy and free-elections for all of Mexico. His popularity caused Diaz to feel threatened, and, to deal with the issue, falsely accused Madero and put him in jail right before elections. Diaz was then reelected as president and released Madero from jail where he fled to Texas. There, he stated that Mexico’s elections were illegitimate and wrote a document declaring revolution on November 10, 1910. Mader became president and Diaz fled to Europe.
The coup d’état that saw Fidel Castro’s army roll into Havana on January 8, 1959, marked the end of President Fulgencio Batista’s government and the birth of another led by a young, bearded, and popular Castro. Despite denying any communist tendencies in his politics, Castro was quick to ally himself to the USSR and to expropriate many American businesses in Cuba, further alienating himself from the United States until finally declaring himself a communist in December 1961. A short time later, in February 1962, the United States imposed an embargo on the Republic of Cuba. Castro’s republic, by that point, had grown closer to the USSR and had, following its ally’s example, tightened its control over all levels of government, education, and media. In his nearly fifty years in power, Castro never diverged significantly from his communist views, and in keeping with them, never loosened his grip over the Cuban media.