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BR. Why would the U.S. Intervene in Latin America?

BR. Why would the U.S. Intervene in Latin America?. 1925 General Emiliano Chamorro overthrows the government and sparks a civil war. In 1926 Augusto Cesar Sandino leads a revolt against Adolfo Diaz, Chamorro’s successor to rid Nicaragua of Americans who he viewed as invaders.

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BR. Why would the U.S. Intervene in Latin America?

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  1. BR. Why would the U.S. Intervene in Latin America?

  2. 1925 General Emiliano Chamorro overthrows the government and sparks a civil war. In 1926 Augusto Cesar Sandino leads a revolt against Adolfo Diaz, Chamorro’s successor to rid Nicaragua of Americans who he viewed as invaders. Sandino wanted Nicaraguans to control their country’s land and wealth. Nicaragua

  3. Sandino’s forces were ultimately defeated by a U.S. trained general Anastasio Somoza. Somoza ordered Sandinos’s assassination and in 1936 took over the Presidency. The U.S. would back Somoza and he would rule Nicaragua with the support of the U.S. until the Sandinista Revolution would over throw Somoza’s dynasty in 1979. Nicaragua cont.

  4. The Good Neighbor Policy • In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt. • “ In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of good neighbor – the neighbor who respects himself and because he does so, respects the rights of others”.

  5. Relations with Mexico

  6. United States and Mexico’s Border

  7. United States and Mexico Relations • Mexico’s President Lazaro Cardenas began to nationalize, and take control, over Mexico’s oil industry. • The Mexican constitution of 1917 proclaimed that Mexico controlled all its underground resources.

  8. Britain and The U.S. • U.S. and British firms had continued to own and operate oil companies in Mexico. • Mexico wanted higher wages and better working conditions for the oil workers.

  9. Most Mexican’s supported Cardenas’s bold action against the oil companies. U.S. agreed to recognize Mexico’s right to control its resources. Roosevelt decided to maintain good relationships with Mexico. Mexico agreed to compensate the oil companies for the property they had lost. U.S. and Mexico Compromise

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