History 1BB3: America and the World: The Twentieth Century

Dr. Stephen M. Streeter

McMaster University, Winter 2002

 

Big Stick Diplomacy in Nicaragua

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I. The Setting

Central American Federation
caudillos
map of Nicaragua
Nicaraguan timeline

II. U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua

filibusters
Cornelius Vanderbilt
William Walker
José Santos Zelaya (1893-1909)
Adolfo Díaz (1911-16, 1926-29)

III. The U.S. Marine Occupation and Sandino's Resistance

Henry L. Stimson
José María Moncada
Peace of Tipitapa (1927)
Augusto César Sandino (1895-1934)
Anastasio Somoza García (1936-1956) [Tacho]

Further Reading on Sandino

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