In 1823, President James Monroe presented the Monroe Doctrine, which stated: the United States would not tolerate efforts made by European governments to colonize the North and South America ; however, exempting Spain's colony in Cuba. ... After the Civil War and Cuba's Ten Year' War, US businesses began to monopolize the sugar market in Cuba. ... The Spanish Government regarded Cuba as a province rather a colony, and depended on it for economic stability, and training ground for Spain's army. ... While tension increased between the Cubans and Spanish Government, support ...

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Former Cuban President, Fidel Castro, berated the US Republican Party presidential candidates for their "idiocy and ignorance" after they announced their intentions to bring freedom to Cuba upon election. Just days before the Republican Party's primary in Florida - a state that many Cuban Americans call home - the Cuba Debate website posted Castro's discontent in the "Reflections" column. ... The Republican candidates recently took a stance against President Obama for his neglect of Cubans who want to overthrow the Cuban government, which is now headed by Castro's brother, Ra...

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Many Americans in the U.S. sympathized with Cuba, which began in 1895, and also, maybe more importantly, U.S. citizens owned $50 million worth of real estate and industry in Cuba. ... On January 12, there was a riot in Cuba against the Spanish. On January 25, the U.S. government, concerned about this problem in Cuba, sent the battleship USS Maine to Havana. ... On June 6, the U.S. military landed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. By July 3, the Spanish fleet in Cuba was destroyed. ...

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Cuba was an excellent place, since the U.S. already had investments there. ... (Zinn, 303) Cuban rebels began conflicts with Spain in an effort to gain independence. ... Basically, the only ones who were profiting from the war were the businessmen and the government. ... (Zinn, 410) Zinn also points out that Pearl Harbor was "not really sudden or shocking to the American government." ... In WWI, the public fought for something only the government and industrialists would profit from. ...

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The only reason we helped Cuba was because the U.S. had an investment in their agriculture land, especially in large amounts of sugar. The Spanish dominated over the Cubans and destroyed the lands that the U.S. was using when they were trading with the Cubans. ... "This notion of spreading American values and ideals throughout the world helped make the U.S. a world power, but it also greatly weakened constitutional government by making the executive branch supreme in foreign policy" (Tim Shoemaker). ...

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In 1839, two Portugese slave hunters acquired fifty-three slaves in Havana, Cuba. ... President Martin Van Buren and most of the nation's press advocated extraditing the Africans to Cuba. ... The United States government decided to appeal this decision before the Supreme Court. ... If that would have been the case, then they would have been returned to Cuba. ... The Spanish government was angry and confused by the Court's action. ...

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The single most important issue facing the Untied States today is terrorism. Since September 11, the government has spent billions of dollars on homeland security. President Bush has even created a new cabinet position to address the issue of homeland security. President Bush has also declared sev...

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He took on JP Morgan and other "big trust" companies; Roosevelt was considered a trustbuster in response to public pressure for greater government intervention into businesses, he passed the Hepburn Act. This Act says that railroads can only charge the amount that is set by the government and allowed the government to inspect financial records. ... This act says that all foods and drugs had to be tested and approved by government officials before they went onto the market. ... Roosevelt's concern with the destruction of the forest, prairies, streams, and wilderness led to putting the gove...

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He felt it was time to go back home after that, so he left Dakota, and for the next 12 years he held various government positions. ... One of the government jobs he had was the assistant secretary of the navy. ... He trained the rough riders for quite sometime before they were sent into Cuba and proceeded to fight in the battle known as The Battle of San Juan Hill. ... He fought against child labor for a long time until the government finally decided that child labor was a state issue, and could be allowed or not allowed depending on that states vote. ...

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This war took place because the Vietnams couldn't agree on one government so they broke up into two major parts, North and the South. North Vietnam wanted to have Communism for a government under the influence of Ho Chi Minh, and the South wanted to have democracy, under the influence of the French rule. ... Russia at that point had already expanded its empire into Eastern Europe, Korea and Cuba. ... The Government of America, noticed how people felt about this war, and started to make instant plans for the withdraw. ...

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Finally, Brands stresses that Spanish-American War combined with the serious drawbacks of American control in Cuba further disheartened the American public against even democratic imperialism and drifted the American government from outright annexation in favor of informal influence. ...

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As the President, Roosevelt looked out for the best interest of the United States and " flexed America's muscle abroad" Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to acknowledge " that a nation's future trade posture must be toward Asia and away from the Old World entanglement of its past" When war broke out between the U.S. and Spain when Cuba attempted to achieve their independence, Theodore Roosevelt formed a group called the " Rough Riders". ... On July1rst, the Rough Riders stormed through the San Juan hills in Cuba Teddy was considered a hero by the American population. .....

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As the President, Roosevelt looked out for the best interest of the United States and " flexed America's muscle abroad" Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to acknowledge " that a nation's future trade posture must be toward Asia and away from the Old World entanglement of its past" When war broke out between the U.S. and Spain when Cuba attempted to achieve their independence, Theodore Roosevelt formed a group called the " Rough Riders". ... On July1rst, the Rough Riders stormed through the San Juan hills in Cuba Teddy was considered a hero by the American population. .....

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Months later, Admiral William Sampson repeated with a victory over the Spanish in a battle off Santiago, Cuba. ... He also recommended that they preserve China's territory and its government. ... 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 has shown since our troops left the island, and which so many of the republics in both Americas are constantly and brilliantly showing, all questions of interference by this nation with their affairs would be at an end. ...

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The following quote by the former United States Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, seems to summarize the government's perception of this sensitive subject: An Affirmative Action Plan is a "careful, systematic analysis of who you've got, who's out there, and how you are going to broaden opportunity. ... Since racism and indifference had restricted rights for blacks, executive orders issued by presidents in the 1950s and 1960s established the concept of anti-discrimination measures to guarantee fair treatment of blacks by government contractors. ... Black (not of Hispanic Orig...

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The house argued in order to prevent the El Salvadoran government from falling back into a Marxist regime, the United States needed to support the newly elected government with a significant figure of money. ... In exchange for a guilty plea and cooperation with the government's investigation of the case Mr. ...

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Their conviction that they were not equals with the United States in the Union was strengthened when the American government directly interfered with a revolution in Chile in 1891 and a trade dispute in Brazil in 1893. ... The company, which also had large interests in Cuba and Colombia, came to exert great influence upon the policies of the American government towards the so-called "banana republics" in Latin America. ... But in 1889 the Germans, who also had economic interests in the islands, sought to undo this agreement by overthrowing the Samoan government. ... Increasingly concerned a...

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The United States had an interest in Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Panama Canal. ... The policy stated that to win American recognition, they must not only exercise power but reflect "a just government based upon law, not upon arbitrary or irregular force." ...

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"I believe in effective governmental action. ... One question came from Frank Singiser of Mutual News, and he asked the question, "I"d like to pin down the difference the way you would handle Castro's regimen and prevent the establishment of Communists governments in the Western Hemisphere and the way that Senator Kennedy would proceed. ... He suggested that if they continue to cut off trade and relations with Cuba and the Cuban people would take care of Castro and his regime. ...

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American intervention between Spain and her colonies of Cuba and the Philippines constituted involvement in European affairs that had previously been avoided under the Monroe Doctrine which was in turn based on Washington's Neutrality policy. ... The Declaration states that governments "derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." ... The Corollary was imposed, purportedly, in an attempt to protect the people of the North, South, and Central Americas from corrupt leaders and foundering governments, as Roosevelt himself said in his annual address to Congress (Doc F). ... Thi...

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In this speech, Reagan attacked high taxes, wasteful government spending, the growth of governmental agencies, the rising crime rate, and soaring welfare costs. ... He took office in January of 1967, once there he worked to slow the growth of government spending. ... He pledged to boost military spending and to reduce government regulation of business. ...

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Fearing the danger of Spanish control of Cuba, Teddy strongly advocated war against Spain; but McKinley was doubtful of starting the war, waiting for public opinion to lead him what to do. ... Roosevelt also wanted to start the first Voluntary cavalry regiment that would be sent to Cuba to fight. ... They were one of the first regiments to land in Cuba, and their greatest victory was the taking over of San Juan Hill, that would later lead them to Santiago. ... The Hepburn Act gave the government power to set freight rates. ...

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Fearing the danger of Spanish control of Cuba, Teddy strongly advocated war against Spain; but McKinley was doubtful of starting the war, waiting for public opinion to lead him what to do. ... Roosevelt also wanted to start the first Voluntary cavalry regiment that would be sent to Cuba to fight. ... They were one of the first regiments to land in Cuba, and their greatest victory was the taking over of San Juan Hill, that would later lead them to Santiago. ... The Hepburn Act gave the government power to set freight rates. ...

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I will also go over an example of each and get a grasp of what our government's two political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, say about these. ... In fact, the United States got involved eight times from 1904 to 1934, then again in the affairs of Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and the destruction of the leftist government of Brazil after the second world war. ... Kennedy not only began the counterinsurgency force called the Green Berets to stop communism, but also invaded Cuba and posed the question of war with Russia. ... All this support was for naught though, fore in Ja...

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This military action was an obvious threat to the self-government of Panama. The US government had known that Noriega was involved in drug trafficking since at least 1972. ... The US government continued to value Noriega's services. ... This was just in time to make certain a compliant government for the administrative changeover of the Canal on January 1, 1990. ... Subsequently when that campaign was over I had lost all respect for the leaders of our government and those who made the decision to invade this country. ...

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