Banana Wars

(noun)

A series of occupations, police actions, and interventions involving the U.S. in Central America and the Caribbean. Beginning in 1898, the U.S. conducted military operations and occupations in Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. This period ended with the withdrawal of troops from Haiti and the initiation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy in 1934.

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Examples of Banana Wars in the following topics:

  • The Banana Wars

    • The Banana Wars were a series of U.S. military occupations and interventions in Latin American and Caribbean countries during the early 1900s.
    • The Banana Wars, also known as the "American-Caribbean Wars," were a series of occupations, police actions, and interventions involving the United States in Central America and the Caribbean.
    • The conflict was called the "Banana Wars" because of the connections between U.S. interventions and the preservation of American commercial interests in the region.
    • Henry coined the term "banana republic" in 1904 to describe Honduras.
    • The Marines were called in so often that they developed a Small Wars Manual, The Strategy and Tactics of Small Wars, in 1921.

  • Wilson and Latin America

    • Economic concerns primarily drove these conflicts, known as "Banana Wars" due to the connections between interventions and American commercial interests in the region.
    • Over time, the revolution changed from a revolt against the established order to a multi-sided civil war, with an end coming into sight only after the Mexican Constitution was drafted in 1917.
    • War would probably have been declared between the two nations if not for the critical situation in Europe.

  • Portfolio Risk

    • Three assets (apples, bananas, and cherries) can be thought of as a bowl of fruit.
    • If every time bananas have a bad day, so do apples, their co-variance will be large.
    • If bananas do great half of the time when cherries do bad and bananas do terrible the other half, their co-variance is zero.
    • Apples and bananas grow in different climates so their performance may be a result of weather patterns in either region.
    • The overall risk of the portfolio would take into account three individual variances and three co-variances (apples-bananas, apples-cherries, and bananas-cherries) and it would reduce the overall portfolio to the degree that they are uncorrelated.

  • Types of Leaf Forms

    • In a simple leaf, such as the banana leaf, the blade is completely undivided.
    • (a) The banana plant (Musa sp.) has simple leaves.

  • Calculating Expected Portfolio Returns

    • Let's say that we have a portfolio that consists of three assets, and we'll call them Apples, Bananas, and Cherries.
    • Where A stands for apple, B is banana, C is cherry and FMP is farmer's market portfolio.

  • Introduction to Building Better Buildings

    • Papayas, passion fruit and bananas are also harvested inside the RMI building despite the fact that the entire structure is situated at an elevation of 2,164 m, the outdoor growing season amounts to 52 days a year, midwinter cloudy spells last as long as a month and a half, and temperatures occasionally drop to –44°C.

  • Cognitive Learning and Sociobiology

    • When a banana was hung in their cage too high for them to reach along with several boxes placed randomly on the floor, some of the chimps were able to stack the boxes one on top of the other, climb on top of them, and get the banana.

  • Definitions

    • You can define fruit salad as consisting of bananas, pineapples, and yellow apples (ideally you would have a reason for this, too).
    • For example, you can define fruit salad as consisting of bananas, pineapples, and yellow apples (ideally you would have a reason for this, too).

  • Diversity of Angiosperms

    • Many important crops are monocots, such as rice and other cereals, corn, sugar cane, and tropical fruits like bananas and pineapples .
    • (a) Rice, (b) wheat, and (c) bananas are monocots, while (d) cabbage, (e) beans, and (f) peaches are dicots.

  • Dietary Fiber

    • Soluble fiber is found in varying quantities in all plant foods including legumes (peas, soybeans, lupins, and other beans), oats, rye, chia, and barley, some fruits and fruit juices (including prune juice, plums, berries, bananas, and the insides of apples and pears), certain vegetables such as broccoli, carrots, and Jerusalem artichokes, root tubers and root vegetables such as sweet potatoes and onions (skins of these are also sources of insoluble fiber), psyllium seed husk (a mucilage soluble fiber) and flax seeds, and nuts (almonds are the highest in dietary fiber).
    • Sources of insoluble fiber include whole grain foods, wheat and corn bran, nuts and seeds, potato skins, hemp seed, lignans, vegetables such as green beans, cauliflower, zucchini (courgette), celery, and nopal, some fruits including avocado, and unripe bananas, and the skins of some fruits, including kiwifruit and tomatoes.