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Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
The 19th century saw the United States transition from an isolationist, post-colonial regional power to a Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific power. From 1790 to 1797, the U.S. Revenue Marine served as the United States' only armed maritime service, tasked with enforcing export duties, and was the predecessor to the United States Coast Guard.
In 1912, during the Banana Wars period, the U.S. occupied Nicaragua as a means of protecting American business interests and protecting the rights that Nicaragua granted to the United States to construct a canal there. [57] At the same time, the United States and Mexican governments competed for political influence in Central America.
The United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution was varied and seemingly contradictory, first supporting and then repudiating Mexican regimes during the period 1910–1920. [1] For both economic and political reasons, the U.S. government generally supported those who occupied the seats of power, but could withhold official recognition.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 February 2025. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was given independence in 1994 This ...
The United States and Post-Cold War Interventions : Bush and Clinton in Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia, 1992-1998. Claremont, CA: Regina Books. ISBN 978-0-941690-90-4. OCLC 40521220. DiPrizio, Robert C. (2002). Armed Humanitarians : U.S. Interventions from Northern Iraq to Kosovo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801870675.
The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama. New York: Macmillan Inc. ISBN 978-0-02-588210-2. Striffler, Steve; Moberg, Mark, eds. (2003). Banana wars: power, production, and history in the Americas. American encounters Global interactions.
All of the area formulas for general convex quadrilaterals apply to parallelograms. Further formulas are specific to parallelograms: Further formulas are specific to parallelograms: A parallelogram with base b and height h can be divided into a trapezoid and a right triangle , and rearranged into a rectangle , as shown in the figure to the left.