Nicaragua (USA Protectorate)

This article is about the specific polity Nicaragua (USA Protectorate) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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The United States occupation of Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933 was part of the Banana Wars, when the U.S. military invaded various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934.

Establishment

June 1916: Nicaragua assumed a quasi-protectorate status of the U.S. under the 1916 Bryan-Chamorro Treaty.

Chronology

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1. Banana Wars

were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1934.

1.1.United States occupation of Nicaragua

Was the U.S. invasion of Nicaragua in 1916. The United States would leave the army only in 1934.

January 1934: In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, invoking his new Good Neighbor policy, ended the American intervention in Nicaragua.