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The 1904 [[Roosevelt Corollary]] to the Monroe Doctrine amended it to proclaim a U.S. right to intervene [[militarily]] to correct "flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a [[Latin American]] nation." The U.S. had already seized [[Cuba]] and [[Puerto Rico]] from [[Spain]], threatened to go to war with Great Britain over Venezuela 1895, and intervened to detach [[Panama]] from [[Colombia]] in order to build the [[Panama Canal]]. It subsequently invaded [[Nicaragua]], [[Honduras]], [[Mexico]], [[Haiti]], the [[Dominican Republic]], [[Guatemala]], Cuba, Panama, [[Costa Rica]], and [[Grenada]] and engaged in [[covert]] [[regime change]] operations in many of these countries as well as in [[Chile]], Venezuela, and [[Bolivia]].
The 1904 [[Roosevelt Corollary]] to the Monroe Doctrine amended it to proclaim a U.S. right to intervene [[militarily]] to correct "flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a [[Latin American]] nation." The U.S. had already seized [[Cuba]] and [[Puerto Rico]] from [[Spain]], threatened to go to war with Great Britain over Venezuela 1895, and intervened to detach [[Panama]] from [[Colombia]] in order to build the [[Panama Canal]]. It subsequently invaded [[Nicaragua]], [[Honduras]], [[Mexico]], [[Haiti]], the [[Dominican Republic]], [[Guatemala]], Cuba, Panama, [[Costa Rica]], and [[Grenada]] and engaged in [[covert]] [[regime change]] operations in many of these countries as well as in [[Chile]], Venezuela, and [[Bolivia]].
In 1917, a German proposal of an alliance with Mexico helped persuade the United States to enter [[World War I]].
In 1917, a [[Zimmerman Telegram|German proposal of an alliance with Mexico]] helped persuade the United States to enter [[World War I]].
In the 1930s, when [[Germany]] and [[Japan]] attempted to erode [[American]] primacy in countries like [[Brazil]] and [[Peru]], the United States tempered its unabashed [[interventionism]] by adopting what it called a "[[Good Neighbor Policy]]."
In the 1930s, when [[Germany]] and [[Japan]] attempted to erode [[American]] primacy in countries like [[Brazil]] and [[Peru]], the United States tempered its unabashed [[interventionism]] by adopting what it called a "[[Good Neighbor Policy]]."