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Inventions of the United States in Kinzer’s book, Overthrow

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In Kinzer’s book, Overthrow, we are taken through the events of United States foreign intervention. We see how the United States plays a direct role in the overthrowing of leaders of countries who are not doing as the U.S. pleases. The U.S. goes about overthrowing in some very similar ways and some differing ways. However, as a whole, the U.S. shows many similar actions and reasons behind their attempts at overthrowing another country’s leader. The U.S. is trying to greater their sphere of global influence and they are using military force when needed in all the overthrow attempts. Although, the U.S. does have a slightly different reason from Part One and Part Two, and that reason is changed from being anti-colonial to being anti-Communist. Lastly, the U.S. also uses a new agency that was not at their disposal in Part One of Kinzer, and that is the CIA. The U.S. had similar actions in the Kinzer novel from Part One to Part Two. The major similarity is the attempt to influence a broader area of the world. The U.S. is an extremely imperialistic power and wants to continue that throughout history. Although the U.S. is more so looking for new markets in Part One, they are still trying to make sure that those areas of the world are pro-American. Likewise in Part Two, the U.S. is attempting to hinder Communism so the U.S. goes out and successfully plans coups and puts men who support the U.S. into power. In the case of Hawaii, U.S. men were plotting the overthrow of Queen

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