BRUH Flashcards
(70 cards)
Where was air warfare first practiced?
Air warfare such as seen by the Nazi Luftwaffe was first developed in Nicaragua by the likes of the U.S in the 1920s. Particularly againsy Augusto Cesar Sandino.
What are the origins of the bureaucratic military command?
The origins were rooted in empire, in the military campaigns the U.S took against Latin America and the Caribbean.
By the end of the 19th century, what had the United States accomplished in its imperial ambition with south america, the carribean, and the pacific?
The U.S did not hide its imperial interests as well as it does now. THey had sent warships to Latin America almost 6000 times within a period of 28 years. Hawaii was annexed in the name of sugar barons. Brazil was economically enslaved in part by Rockefeller and completely by the U.S after a counterrevolution was sparked, the U.S sending man o’ wars into the Rio de Janiero Harbor to defeat rebels belived to be hostile to U.S economic interests. Cuba was exploited in 1898 as a protectorate. Theodore Roosevelt teamed up with JP Morgan to shave the province of Panama off Columbia , making it into an important global transit route.
Over the course of 30 years following 1890s, how many times did the U.S invade the carribean?
34 times.
In the early 20th century was the united states colonialist?
Only not in definition. The U.S first began its efforts to conduct soft or otherwise covert imperialism not due to any sense of morality, but on the contrary, due to a hatred of being responsible of non-whites. Nativism was paired with economic expansionism as well as a need to protect a white labor force.
Was militarism alive in the early 20th century though?
For sure. You have the example of Alfred Thayer MAHAN TO THANK FOR THAT. Howard Taft was also an imperialist.
What changed Teddy Roosevelt’s perspective on formal empire?
A phillipine blood insurgency which took 400 american lives and killed 200,000 Filipinos. Much too costly both politically and financially.
Who fleshed out the whole idea of open door policy?How did it favor the U.S?
John Hay in regard to China. It favored teh U.S by having markets under European colonial control be forced to open up so that the UNited States may reap some of the benefits of these overexploited lands.
What was a reason for the Spanish American War?
A need to access Asian markets easily through the phillipines.
What happened after Germany took control of Kiachow, on China’s Southern Coast, in 1897?
America was worried that the European Powers, including Japan, would divide China among themselves and leave the U.S out of it.
How did the U.S create financial disaster in Dominican Republic during 1893?
A New-York based company called the San Domingo Improvement Company took on all of DR’s foreign debt from European creditors in 1893, was grossly irresponsible and floated national bonds in Europe at unstable interest rates and printing money irresponsibly.
What did FDR’s Good Neighbor policy of 1933 do?
It withdrew occupation forces from the Caribbean, abandoned a series of treaties that gave the U.S special priveleges in a number of Caribbean and CentralAmerican countries. It took away the Platt ammendment from Cuba’s consitution.It also agreed to a precedent-setting policy of absolutely nonintervention in Latin America.
How did Bolivia. and mexico manage to nationalize the holdings of U.S oil companies?
The Good Neighbor policy of 1933.
What racist comments did Roosevelt make about Mexico, Haiti, DR, and Panama?
Nah, lmao he bragged about writing Haiti their constitution and called the people of Mexico, DR, Panama, and Haiti “little more than primitive savages”.
What did the Mexican Revolution cause in the U.S?
Massive damage to U.S owned property, the decade long war proved that Latin America was no joke.The United States did take this as an opportunity though, using the revolution as a way to encourage insurgents to change their model of governing to capitalist and liberal.
How much did the U.S spend on improving Mexico’s infrastructure?
A billion by the end of the first decade of the 19th century. They supplied railways, roads, ports, and opened the rural lands to development. Oil, electricity, mining, ranching, made up more than a quarter of U.S investment.
What happened as a result of 20th century liberalization in mexico?
Anotehr revolution which helped create one of the first modern third world nations, leading also to the first social democratic constitution. The U.S had 22 companies boycott mexico and the treasury quit buying silver from them.
Who did Augosto Sandino work with to spread propoganda regarding the U.S and his country peasants?
He worked with many but most importantly he worked with the All-American anti-imperialist league.
What was Roosevelt’s ideal-or purported-ideal of the world?
A world which demilitarized itself, a world in which countries could trade freely across borders.
What was a trade-related benefit of the good neighbor policy?
It led to a bit of economic recovery from teh depression, as the 1934 Trade Agreement act allowed the U.S to reduce select tarrifs by 50%, allowing trade agreements to surge (15 latin american countries) between 1934 and 1942. The U.S trade deficit with Latin America fell from 142,000,000 dollars to just over 13,000,000 in just 8 years.
What did the U.S pharmeceutical industry gain from the liberalization of the western hemisphere?
Soon to be a great beneficiary of the post-war conditions in the international scene due to its highly export orientied industry, pharmeceutical companies enjoyed prosperity during the 1930s overhaul of militarism under the good neighbor policy. It worked out production and marketing strategies in latin america that led U.S corporations to dominate the region.
Why were FDR’s speeches so genuine sounding and thoughtful?
He ripped the m off from Latin American leaders,particularly his diplomatic calls for hmeispheric interdependence. His 1933 speech for nonintervention was lifted from the Argentine Foreign minister Carlos Saavedra Lama’s “Anti-War treaty on non-agression and conciliation”.
When the United Nations was founded, what role did Latin America play
?
Panama and Chile provided draft charters for the declaration of human rights. While many other Latin Amrerican representatives provided ideas to include social and democratic right, as well as great economic ones. These rights included women’s rights, rights to unionize, rights for labor, rights to adequate medical care, to clothing, food, and housing, as well as education.
Amongst all of the fanfare of the 1930s for human rights, what territories did the U.S still vehemently hold onto?
The Panama Canal Zone, the Phillipines (until 1946), and Puerto Rico.
