This course examines the relations between the United States and Latin America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will explore a variety of U.S. military interventions in the region, including U.S. participation in the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the occupation of Haiti, and the CIA's role in the overthrow of President Salvador Allende in Chile. We will look for consistencies and changes over time, weighing the role of ideology, national security, economic interests, and cultural factors in the creation and outcomes of U.S. policy. Readings will consist of a variety of primary source materials, mostly U.S. government documents but also letters and memoirs by U.S. policy-makers. All of the documents are in English, but students with a reading knowledge of Spanish will be encouraged to investigate other primary sources. In addition to the actions and motivations of officials in Washington, we will also consider how ordinary Americans interpreted U.S. relations with Latin America. Therefore, the course will investigate how young soldiers, African Americans, and women saw their roles as occupiers, allies, and the vehicle of modern civilization in the region. History 345 will also consider Latin American initiatives and responses to U.S. intervention, from attempts by nationalist regimes in Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, and Nicaragua to find an alternative to dependence on the United States, to critiques by Latin American intellectuals concerning U.S. cultural influences.