United States occupation of Nicaragua

A prolonged U.S. military presence in Nicaragua, interrupted in 1925–1926, that supported successive Nicaraguan governments and fought Augusto César Sandino’s insurgency.

Bryan–Chamorro Treaty: A 1914 treaty granting the United States exclusive rights to build a canal across Nicaragua and other strategic privileges. Its canal provisions embodied the strategic interests invoked during U.S. intervention.
Filibuster War: A mid-nineteenth-century Central American conflict against the U.S. adventurer William Walker and his forces in Nicaragua. Walker’s takeover established an earlier precedent for U.S. military involvement in Nicaragua.
Adolfo Díaz: A Nicaraguan politician who served as president during several periods and relied on U.S. support during the 1912 crisis. His government requested U.S. military assistance that began the long occupation.
United States withdrawal from Nicaragua: The departure of the last U.S. Marines from Nicaragua in January 1933, after the election of Juan Bautista Sacasa. The withdrawal ended direct occupation without resolving the conflict between Sandino and the National Guard.
Good Neighbor policy: A U.S. foreign-policy approach of non-intervention in Latin America adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It replaced the direct military interventions exemplified by the occupation.
Nicaraguan National Guard: A military and police force organized by the United States in Nicaragua and later commanded by Anastasio Somoza García. The occupation built this force to replace U.S. troops as the state’s coercive arm.
José Santos Zelaya: Nicaragua’s president from 1893 to 1909, whose nationalist policies and foreign alliances brought him into conflict with the United States. U.S. opposition to Zelaya helped produce the political crisis preceding the occupation.
Benjamín Zeledón: A Nicaraguan general who resisted U.S. intervention and was killed at the Battle of Coyotepe in 1912. His defeat became an early symbol of Nicaraguan resistance to the occupation.
Juan Bautista Sacasa: A Nicaraguan politician who served as president from 1933 to 1936 after the U.S. Marines withdrew. His presidency began as U.S. troops left and Sandino briefly negotiated with the government.
Nicaraguan Revolution: The 1979 overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship by the Sandinista National Liberation Front and allied opposition forces. It overturned the political order whose coercive institutions grew from the occupation.

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