Intervention of U.S in Latin America

American foreign policy since the late 19th century had been aggressive and nationalistic. As a colonial power with increasingly valuable investments outside the country, the United Sates became more and more involved in international affairs. The United States constantly intervened in the affairs of Latin America for there economic, commercial and other benefits.
The main reasons which led the United States to intervention were that it feared the Spanish, Russians and the other European countries might gain control of Latin America. In order to protect its own interest in issued the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 which instructed the European nations to stay out of the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, while the US remained virtually impregnable to foreign attack. The Monroe Doctrine eventually became one of the foundations of U.S. policy in Latin America. Secondly the Spanish American War became the turning point in the American Foreign Policy. After the war the United States was set...