The Caribbean and Polynesia Reading the compendium with colonial texts (Jamaica Kincaid and Haunani Trask) did two things to me: It gave me knowledge of something I didn't know anything about before, and it made me feel uneasy. ... To many Westerners, the name Antigua means adventure, white beaches, blue sea - the stereotype bounty commercial. ...
The war was fought on two fronts, in the Caribbean and in the Philippines. ... The United States was defeating Spain in the Caribbean Sea and the Philippines with minor losses. ... As a result of the Spanish - American War, the United States became more powerful and controlled an empire that stretched from the Caribbean Sea to the Far East. ...
What was the focus of the U.S. policies in the Caribbean and in the Far East? ... With this interest in mind, the United States developed a Caribbean policy to ensure its dominance in the region. ... It made no mention of disarmament, free trade, or freedom of the seas. ...
A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with sustained winds of 74 miles per hour (65 knots) or greater in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. Hurricane-like storms are called by different names in the different regions of the world. For exampl...
The construction of the Panama Canal had not yet been completed and Roosevelt needed United States relations with the nations of the Caribbean Sea to remain undivided. ... The military's endless involvement in the Caribbean Sea did nothing for the image of the United States, and only helped Roosevelt's Corollary promote the "Bad Neighbor" policy. ...
American Imperialism The United States became an imperialist nation in the very late 1800's, the Americans wanted to expand over seas with their belief in manifest destiny. ... After having routed Spain the United States secured undisputed control of the American Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean. ... Now that America's territory stretched from the Caribbean across the Pacific, a canal was greatly needed. ... If every country washed by the Carribean Sea would show the progress in stable and just civilization which, with the aid of the Platt Amendment, Cuba h...
In the late 1930s, President Franklin D Roosevelt did not do everything possible, under the circumstance, to lead the American people away from a policy of isolationism, although he favored the political shift. When German, Japan, and Italy first began making territorial demands, the US and other W...
