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This 3 page paper examines American interventions in foreign nations in the early twentieth century and argues that they were largely unjustified, and that Mark Twain was correct in deploring the American habit of minding everybody else's business. It also considers why America returned to isolationism in the 1920s. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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stick its nose in the internal affairs of other sovereign nations. Someone else, who cannot be unidentified with certainty (it may have been President Hoover), is alleged to have remarked
that Americans were forever sticking pins in rattlesnakes and were surprised when they got bit. This paper examines American interventions in foreign nations in the early twentieth century and argues
that they were largely unjustified, and that Twain was correct in deploring the American habit of minding everybody elses business. It also considers why America returned to isolationism in the
1920s. Discussion The Panic of 1893 sent America spiraling into a depression, which led some U.S. politicians to advocate "an aggressive foreign policy to pull the United States out of
the depression of the second Grover Cleveland administration" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, 2006). Measures to counteract the depression included the passage of the McKinley Tariff of 1890; and
a buildup of the U.S. Navy into a powerful and aggressive force known as the "Great White Fleet" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, 2006). In addition, the U.S. "acquired
the Philippines and Puerto Rico" as "spoils from the Spanish-American War" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, 2006). Although there was little American capital investment in either, "these colonies were
strategic outposts for expanding trade with Latin America and Asia, particularly China" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, 2006). Thus by the late nineteenth century and into the early years
of the twentieth, the United States was clearly involved in empire building. The U.S. became involved in Cuba "through the Spanish-American War" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, 2006). At
the end of the war there were troops left in Cuba, so the U.S. Congress passed the Platt Amendment, which agreed to withdraw those troops in exchange for concessions from
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