CSEC Revision #5 01-02-22 Theme Seven The United States in the Caribbean

The United States’ Influence in the Caribbean
1. Economic, political and ideological factors which influenced the United States’
interest in the Caribbean up to 1962.
2. Reasons for United States’ intervention in the following territories: Cuba and Puerto
Rico (1898); Panama (1904); Haiti (1915) and the Dominican Republic (1916) and
Grenada (1983).
3. The economic, political and cultural effects of United States’ imperialism in the English
speaking Caribbean up to 1985.
4. United States reaction to Cuban Revolution 1959 – 1962.