From: Phil Payne 

> | I don't recall any Soviet invasions in the Caribbean or South America.
They
> | certainly never landed any invading troops in Iraq and their military
> | contribution in Viet Nam hardly matched the US's.
>
> When did the US invade South America?

1850-56: U.S. soldiers defend American-built transisthmian railroad in Panama

1852-53: U.S. Marines land in Argentina to protect American interests
during a revolution

1855: U.S. forces sent to Uruguay to protect American lives and property

1856: William Walker, with a mercenary army, conquers Nicaragua.

1857: Cornelius Vanderbilt funds the war against Walker, and hires American
mercenary Sylvanus M. Spencer to lead Costa Rican forces

1885: Washington sends--in one of the first acts of "gunboat
diplomacy"--the USS Wachusett to Guatemala to defend American lives
and property

1898: America defeats Spain and annexes or assumes control of Cuba, the
Philippines, Puerto Rico (and also annexes Hawaii)

1903: The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty makes the U.S. the "sovereign"
power in the Panama Canal Zone

1904: Roosevelt announces his corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, and takes
customs control of the Dominican Republic

1905: U.S. Marines land in Honduras

1906-09: U.S. forces occupy Cuba

1910: U.S. forces land in Nicaragua and control--for the next thirty-eight
years--the country's finances

1912: United Fruit begins operations in Honduras

1914-34: U.S. troops occupy Haiti

1916-24: U.S. Marines occupy the Dominican Republic

1918: U.S. army lands in Panama to protect United Fruit plantations

1920-21: U.S. troops support a coup in Guatemala

1926-33: U.S. marines occupy Nicaragua and wage war against Sandino's peasant army

1936-79: U.S. support for the Somozas

1954: CIA-United Fruit coup in Guatemala

1961: CIA-supported invasion of the Bay of Pigs

1966: U.S. Green Berets take part in "Operation Guatemala"; over
8,000 Guatemalans killed

1981-90: U.S. funds contra war in Nicaragua

1983: U.S. invasion of Granada

1989: U.S. invasion ousts Panamanian dictator and former CIA operative,
Manuel Noriega.


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