American imperialism (4)
Foreign interventions by the United States (incomplete list)
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The First and Second Barbary Wars of the early 19th century were the first wars waged by the United States outside its boundaries after the War of Independence. Directed against the Barbary States of North Africa, it was fought to end piracy against American-flagged ships in the Mediterranean.
The founding of Liberia was sponsored by American such as the American Colonization Society with the support and unofficial cooperation of the United States government.
The U.S. advanced the Open Door Policy to guarantee imperialist economic access to China. The USA has also acquired small islands in the Pacific.
From 1846 to 1848, the United States initiated a war with Mexico to conquer Texas, California and what today is the American Southwest but was then part of Mexico. During this war, US. troops invaded and occupied parts of Mexico, including Veracruz and Mexico City.
The early decades of the 20th century saw a number of interventions in Latin America by the U.S. government often justified under the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. President William Howard Taft viewed "Dollar Diplomacy" as a way for American corporations to benefit.
1901: The Platt Amendment amended a treaty between the US and Cuba after the Spanish–American War virtually made Cuba a U.S. protectorate. The amendment outlined conditions for the U.S. to intervene in Cuban affairs and permitted the United States to lease or buy lands for the purpose of the establishing naval bases, including Guantánamo Bay.
1903: U.S. backed independence of Panama from Colombia in order to build the Panama Canal.
1904: Theodore Roosevelt announced his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
1906 to 1909: U.S. governed Cuba under Governor Charles Magoon.
1909: U.S.-backed rebels in Nicaragua deposed President José Santos Zelaya.
1912 to 1933 United States occupation of Nicaragua: Marines occupied main cities.
1914 to 1917: Mexico conflict and Pancho Villa Expedition, U.S. troops entering northern portion of Mexico.
1915 to 1934: United States occupation of Haiti.
1916 to 1924: U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic.
Repeated US interventions in Chile, starting in 1811, the year after its independence from Spain.
During World War I, US troops intervened in the Russian Civil War against the Red Army with the Polar Bear Expedition.
During the Cold War, the US frequently used the CIA for covert operations against governments considered unfriendly to US interests. In 1949 under US President Harry Truman, a coup overthrew an elected parliamentary government in Syria, which had delayed approving an oil pipeline requested by US international business interests in that region.
In 1953, under US President Dwight Eisenhower, the CIA helped Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran remove the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.
In 1954, the CIA launched Operation PBSUCCESS, which deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. The coup installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed dictators who ruled Guatemala. Guatemala subsequently plunged into a civil war that cost scores of thousands of lives and ended all democratic expression for decades.
The CIA armed an indigenous insurgency in order to oppose the invasion of Tibet by Chinese forces and the subsequent control of Tibet by China and sponsored a failed revolt against Indonesian President Sukarno in 1958.
As part of the Eisenhower Doctrine, the US also sent troops to Lebanon in Operation Blue Bat.
Covert operations continued under President John F. Kennedy and his successors. In 1961, the CIA attempted to depose Cuban president Fidel Castro through the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
The CIA (with Cuban exiles and South African mercenaries) fought Maoist "Simbas" and Afro-Cuban rebels during the Congo Crisis. The CIA was involved in the assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
In 1961, the CIA supported the overthrow of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. After a period of instability, US troops invaded the Dominican Republic in Operation Power Pack.
At the end of the Eisenhower administration, a campaign was initiated to deny Cheddi Jagan power in an independent Guyana. This campaign was intensified by John F. Kennedy. The CIA cooperated with the AFL-CIO, most notably in organizing an 80-day general strike in Guyana in 1963, backing it up with a strike fund estimated to be over $1 million.
From 1965 to 1973, US troops fought in South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia during the Vietnam War against the military of North Vietnam and against Viet Cong, Pathet Lao, and Khmer Rouge insurgents. President Lyndon Johnson escalated US involvement following the Gulf of Tonkin provocation. The CIA organized Hmong tribes to fight against the Pathet Lao. The CIA developed and ran the Phoenix Program that totured and killed thousands of Vietnamese.
The United States covertly intervened in Chile from as early as 1962, and from 1963 to 1973, covert involvement was "extensive and continuous". In 1970, the CIA planned a "constitutional coup" to prevent the election of Marxist leader Salvador Allende in Chile, while secretly encouraging Chilean generals to act against him. The CIA destabilized Chile and helped create the conditions for the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, which led to years of dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.
In 1973, Nixon authorized Operation Nickel Grass, an overt strategic airlift to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
From 1972–5, the CIA armed Kurdish rebels fighting the Ba'athist government of Iraq.
In Afghanistan, the US began gave financial and military aid to Afghan dissidents through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. President Jimmy Carter began covertly arming Afghan mujahideen in a program called Operation Cyclone. This program was greatly expanded under President Ronald Reagan as part of the Reagan Doctrine.
The CIA also supported the UNITA movement in Angola, the Solidarity movement in Poland, the Contra revolt in Nicaragua, and the Khmer People's National Liberation Front in Cambodia.
Under Reagan, the US sent troops to Lebanon. The US withdrew after 241 servicemen were killed in the Beirut barracks bombing.
Under Carter and Reagan, the CIA repeatedly intervened in El Salvador.
In 1983, the US invaded Grenada in Operation Urgent Fur.
In 1986, the US bombed Libya.
President George H. W. Bush ordered the invasion of Panama (Operation Just Cause) in 1989 and deposed President Manuel Noriega.
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