CIVI US

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1848

Mexican American War

Internationalist school of historians

1980s

Cuban revolution

1933

reciprocal trade agreement

1934

panama canal deal

1936

Nicaragua - Somoza’s coup against Sandino

1939

Mexican Oil Nationalisation

1939

Panama COnference and Havana Act

1939

Destroyers for Basis deal

1940

Harry S Truman

1945-1962

Rio Pact

1947

Organisation of American States

1948

GoodWill tour of DDE

1955

DDE

1952-196

Operation PB Success, Guatemala

1954

Attack on Nixon in Venezuela

1958

Cuban Revolution

1959

Trust fund to Venezuela

1960

JFk

1961-1963

Bay of Pigs invasion

April 1961

Operation Mongoose

30 novembre 1961

Cuban missile crisis

october 1962

Lyndon B Johnson

1963-1969

Mann Doctrine

1964

Intervention in Dominican Republic 20k troops, no congress consultation

1965

assassination of Che Guevara in Bolivia

1966

Panama crisis

1967

Nixon - Kissinger era

1969-1974

Chile - coup of general Pinochet

1973

oil crisis

1973

Operation COndor

1975

Mothers de La Playa de Mayo

1977

Jimmy Carter

1977-1980

Torrijos-Carter treaty

1977

Sandinista Revolution

1979

Support of a military coup in El Salvador

1980

War Powers resolution (military forces must be withdrawn 60 days after when not allowed by Congress)

1973

Congress cut aid to CIa operation

1975

Ford

1974-1977

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989

Iran Contra Scandal

1986 (1981-1989)

Boland Amendment, restrained US budget (Contras)/ Debate hardliners

(overthrow Sandinista regime) and pragmatists (diplomacy and aid).

1982

Operation urgent Fury in Grenada

1983

Falkland war

1982

Georges HW Bush

1989-1993

Bill Clinton

1993-2001

Operation Just Cause, Panama

Overthrow former ally Manual Noriega (ties with drug traffic

and CIA)

Congress wants to intervene

Cancelled elections 1989 and killed US serviceman

10,000 US forces joining those in Panama

1989

Non-intervention in Haiti

Coup against Aristide (elected)

Economic and diplomatic sanctions

Human rights abuses, political

oppression

Clinton intervened in 1994 (return of Aristide)

1991

MERCOSUR

1991

NAFTA

1994

Republican Primaries Bush-Pat Buchanan

1992

Operation Hold the Line in Texas

1993

Operation Gatekeeper - (California, San Diego): block flow by redirecting to dangerous and less populated areas, growth of patrol agents and military technology

1994

Georges W Bush

2001-2009

Patriot Act

2001

Homeland Security act

2002

Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act

2002

Real Id act

2005

Secure Fence Act

2005

Trade sanctions reform and export enhancement Act (CUba)

2001

Bracero Program

1942-1964

Hart-Cellar act
Removed national origin quotas but new limitations (rise in undocumentes immigrants 90s)

1965

War on drugs, Nixon “America public enemy number one”

1971

Drug Enforcement Agency

1973

Condor plan (destructionn of drug plantations in Mexico)

1975

Anti-Drug Abuse act

1986

Operation Blast Furnace, Bolivia

1986

Mérida Plan

2008

latino 18% of US population

2017

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) : temporary relief from deportation

and work permits for undocumented individuals with children (opposition: immigration

reform should arise from Congress

2012-2017

Arizona SB 1070

2010

zero tolerance policy

2018

Executive Order 13767 - Trump Wall

2017

Tea party movement

2007

Lifting restrictions on Cuban-American travel and remittances

2009

Restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba

2014

Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)

2004