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American Imperialism: America's First Intervention In Cuba?

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America’s first intervention in Cuba dated back to the 1898 Spanish-American war (S.Foner, 1972). Historian Pérez argues that imperialist intentions for benefitting US national goals were behind the intervention (Pérez, 1998). Whereas L. Hoganson disputed it to sympathy for Cuba as their fight against Spanish colonials exemplified their American Revolutionary war (Hoganson, 1998). Nevertheless, Cuba encountered imperialistic rule under the Platt Amendment as it gave the US permission to form US provisional government in 1898-1901 (S.Foner, 1972), 1906-1909 and 1917-1922 (Guerra, 2005). In addition, the US held power over Cuba through puppet presidencies of the Liberal parties and the Auténtico who relied on US sugar companies for stabling the

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