The Monroe Doctrine: President James Monroe's Message To The United States

The Monroe Doctrine was what President James Monroe's message to the congress consisted of in 1823. Saying how the United States will not allow the Europeans to have any further expansion of colonization. So, the Monroe Doctrine was potentially just a policy toward the Western Hemisphere. The Doctrine was put into action in 1865. Years later in 1904 Latin American leaders were threatening armed intervention in order to collect their debts. From this the United States Marines got sent to San Domingo, Nicaragua years later, and Haiti years after that in order to keep the Europeans out. In 1962 the Monroe Doctrine became into play when the Soviet Union went to Cuba for them to build missile launching sites. So, a global change that prompted the