الاحتلال الأمريكي لجمهورية هايتي 1915-1934 : الدوافع و النتائج

Abstract EN

(Germany, France, Belgium and Spain) had political and economic relations with a number of Latin American countries, especially with the Republic of Haiti, and as a result of the outbreak of World War I, Germany and France have been demanding Haiti to pay their debts, and they have threatened to take more severe measures if these debts are not paid.

In addition, the country was experiencing instability, through unrest, revolts and assassinations of heads of state before 1915.

These developments undoubtedly made the United States worry about the arrival of Europeans to the Latin American countries, especially those in the Caribbean, which formed the terminals connecting the Atlantic and the Panama Canal and the Pacific, the closest distance between the South and South-Eastern coasts and countries of the region The Caribbean ranges from 50 to 90 km, which will make the United States next to those European powers if it occupies a number of Caribbean countries.

In order to remove this potential danger, the United States revived the Monroe Doctrine (1823) under President Theodore Roosevelt, which adopted the policy of the "big stick".

The United States occupied Haiti in 1915.