Banana Wars
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The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spani
US Marines with the captured flag of Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua in 1932
United States Marines with a Haitian guide patrolling the jungle in 1915 during the Battle of Fort Dipitie
William Allen Rogers cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick ideology
American warships off Veracruz in 1914
The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 US Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City Bank of New York convinced US President Woodrow Wilson to tak
Banana Wars
…fell to the United States (surrendered from Spain). The United States conducted military interventions in Cuba, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. These conflicts ended when the U.S. withdrew from Haiti in 1934 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The term "banana…
American Marines In 1915 defending the entrance gate in Cap Haitian 34510
Airplanes, Haiti, circa 1919
USS Philadelphia, flagship of the fleet involved in the 1890 Môle Saint-Nicolas affair which saw the United States using gunboat diplomacy in an attempt to obtain Môle-Saint-Nicolas