intervention

Examples of intervention in the following topics:

• The Cold War

  • Its main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America.
  • Whenever the U.S. felt its debts were not being repaid in a prompt fashion, its citizens' business interests were being threatened, or its access to natural resources were being impeded, military intervention or threats were often used to coerce the respective government into compliance.
  • The U.S.' s history of Latin American intervention goes back to the time of Andrew Jackson in Florida, when it still belonged to Spain.
  • Thus, these changes conflicted with the Good Neighbor Policy's fundamental principle of non-intervention and resulted in a new wave of American interference into Latin American affairs.
  • American interventions during this period included the usurping of the socialist regime in Chile, the overthrow of socialist president Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and the radical Sandinista government of Nicaragua.

• China and the Bomb

  • In the absence of a dissenting voice from the Soviet Union, who could have vetoed it, the United States and other countries passed a security council resolution authorizing military intervention in Korea.
  • China's intervention in the Korean conflict increased tensions between China and the US.
  • First, China's intervention in the Korean conflict stirred up tensions between China and the U.S. over recognition of Taiwan's sovereignty, which remains a point of contention between the two countries.
  • Second, Chinese intervention in the Korean War prolonged a conflict many Americans initially believed would be short-lived and led to polarizing debates over the strategies and aims of American intervention in the Far East theater of the Cold War.
  • Chinese intervention forced the primarily American forces to once again retreat in bitter fighting behind the 38th Parallel.

• Intervention in Mexico

  • Two main motives were employed to rationalize potential intervention.
  • Although the Zimmermann Telegram affair of January 1917 did not lead to a direct U.S. intervention, it also exacerbated tensions between the US and Mexico.
  • Summarize the Ypiranga intervention and the border clashes between the U.S. and Mexico.

• The "Good Neighbor" Policy

  • Its main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America.
  • Whenever the U.S. felt its debts were not being repaid in a prompt fashion, its citizens' business interests were being threatened, or its access to natural resources were being impeded, military intervention or threats were often used to coerce the respective government into compliance.
  • The U.S.' s history of Latin American intervention goes back to the time of Andrew Jackson in Florida, when it still belonged to Spain.
  • Thus, these changes conflicted with the Good Neighbor Policy's fundamental principle of non-intervention and resulted in a new wave of American interference into Latin American affairs.
  • American interventions during this period included the usurping of the socialist regime in Chile, the overthrow of socialist president Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and the radical Sandinista government of Nicaragua.

• The Roosevelt Corollary

  • Under the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary, the U.S. established a policy of intervention in South American countries to prevent European influence.
  • The U.S. disagreed with the decision in principle, and feared it would encourage future European intervention to gain such advantage.
  • In order to preclude European intervention, the Roosevelt Corollary was created to assert the U.S.' s right to intervene in order to "stabilize" the economic affairs of small states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their international debts.
  • U.S. presidents cited the Roosevelt Corollary as justification for U.S. intervention in Cuba (1906–1909), Nicaragua (1909–1910, 1912–1925 and 1926–1933), Haiti (1915–1934), and the Dominican Republic (1916–1924).

• 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 American/Caribbean Wars, also known as the Banana Wars, were a series of occupations, police actions, and interventions involving the United States in Central America and the Caribbean.
  • Thereafter, the United States conducted military interventions in Cuba, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.
  • The conflict was called "Banana Wars" arising from the connections between these interventions and the preservation of American commercial interests in the region.
  • The United States Marine Corps most often carried out these military interventions.

• Hoover and the Limits of Individualism

  • Hoover saw volunteerism as preferable to governmental coercion or intervention, both of which he felt opposed the American ideals of individualism and self-reliance.
  • Analyze the relationship between Hoover's "rugged individualism" and his understanding of government intervention in the national economy

• The Cuban War of Independence

  • The Cuban War of Independence was an armed conflict against Spain that led to U.S. intervention in Cuba and to the Spanish–American War.
  • The Cuban struggle for independence had captured the American imagination for years, and newspapers had been agitating for intervention with horrific stories of Spanish atrocities against the native Cuban population, intentionally sensationalized and exaggerated .
  • McKinley tried to preserve the peace but, within a few months, believing delay futile, he recommended armed intervention.

• Intervention in Latin America

  • American interventions in the Brazilian coup d'état of 1964 and the Dominican Civil War of 1965 are two notable examples.
  • President Johnson, siding with the Loyalists and convinced that the defeat of the Loyalist forces would create "a second Cuba" on America's doorstep, ordered a military intervention.
  • All civilian advisers had recommended against immediate intervention, hoping that the Loyalist side could bring an end to the civil war on their own.

• The Big Stick

  • While the Monroe Doctrine had sought to prevent European intervention, the Roosevelt Corollary was used to justify U.S. intervention throughout the hemisphere.
  • The U.S. disagreed with the decision in principle, and feared it would encourage future European intervention to gain such advantage.
  • In order to preclude European intervention, the Roosevelt Corollary was created to assert the U.S.' s right to intervene in order to "stabilize" the economic affairs of small states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their international debts.
  • U.S. presidents cited the Roosevelt Corollary as justification for U.S. intervention in Cuba (1906–1909), Nicaragua (1909–1910, 1912–1925 and 1926–1933), Haiti (1915–1934), and the Dominican Republic (1916–1924).