1. kEy Events in U.s. foreign policy: Latin america
By: Melissa pharsi

2. The monroe doctrine
America is off limits to Europe: no colonization, no fighting. The British enforced the Monroe Doctrine because we lacked military strength.

3. The spanish-American war

4. The Roosevelt corollary to the monroe doctrine
The U.S. became the International Police of the Western Hemisphere, in which they intervened in
conflicts.

5. Dollar diplomacy
President Taft said that Latin America was driven primarily for U.S. economic and strategic interests in the region.

6. The good neighbor policy
FDR wanted trade agreements with the nations in Latin-America to develop a hemispheric common front against Fascism.

7. The alliance for progress
JFK aimed to establish economic cooperation between North and South America. Although it worked for a brief time, it ultimately failed.

8. Russian Primer Kruschev secretly sent missiles into Cuba, and Kennedy negotiated to refrain from military invasion of Cuba.
Kennedy sent anticommunist exiles from Cuba to stop Castro, but it backfired so they had to surrender.
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