Hostile Takeovers By The United States

The United States government has had a long history of playing a dirty hand in the overthrow of foreign nations governments, through economic, militaristic, and clandestine ways. Since, the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani, the US government has been meddling in world affairs in countries thousands of miles away. America's leaders have always labeled meddling in the affairs of other countries, the ones the public knew about, as restoration of freedoms to the peoples of that nation, or trying to stop the spread of communism. The result of this paper is to explore the reasons that the US government chose to validate their interference in the governments of foreign nations, and the effects those decisions had on the current worldly situation.

Most of the governmental interference conducted by the United States, had to do with American economic interests in those countries. For example, the overthrow of the Hawaiian government was a direct result of sugarcane planters loosing profits due to the American tariff on foreign produced sugar. Since Hawaii was not a territory or state of the USA, much of the profit gained by the sugarcane planters was lost. This drove the wealthy Hawaiian sugarcane planters to form a group, that with the intimidating effect of the US Military, drove Queen Liliuokalani from power, and established the islands of Hawaii as a territory of the United States. That allowed for the sugarcane growers to freely grow their cane and reduce losses from the import tariff. That is the first American overthrow of a foreign government. Since most of the meddling in foreign countries governmental status was during the imperialist period of the early 20th century, the only deposing of foreign government's was for the advance...

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...oil came before protecting a democracy, that had absolutely no ties or threats from communism was astounding. The fact that a democracy itself, that the US could use it's money and power to stop others from prospering under democracy, and instead overthrow a democratic leader, install a new prime minister and re-instate the shah, who then turned into a tyrannical monarch who used terror squads of a special police force, to bully the members of his nation into submission , and then for the United States to continue to support the shah up until the 1979 revolution in Iran, is quite a travesty indeed. This still bites the USA today, in the form of a country that has had a penchant for the United States ever since it meddled in it's government in 1953. The coup that the CIA sponsored and took out, may have very well created the real world problems we see today in Iran.