HIST 286 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Roosevelt Corollary, Panama Canal Zone, Monroe Doctrine
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The rise of latin american nationalism: 1898 and the rise of us expansionism, revolutionary and reform tendencies would come to reshape latin america, impact most obvious in mexico where changes became embroiled in huge and violent agrarian revolution. But the winds of change could be felt in other places. 1840s (where us expanded west and taking a good chunk of mexico: this is an exceptional case because involved americans to what. The us own history as a colony of another power (fought for and won its independence) kept anti-colonial sentiments strong in us. England and france us was expanding economic and military influence (especially naval) and main area of projection was in the near south: Cubans saw us as a model, a free nation that they sought to emulate. Lots of economic ties between cuba and us (closer then spain) and many.
