![]() ![]() invasion shaped the course in which Haiti would also declare war on Germany by 1918. ![]() foreign policy and activity in the region, German activities in and around Haiti before and after the U.S. Beyond how the threat of German expansion into the Western Hemisphere shaped U.S. Based on fears of German activities and influence in the politically unstable nation of Haiti, in 1915 the United States carried out an invasion of that nation to curtail the perceived spread of German power into America’s sphere of influence. President Wilson made his declaration of war in 1917. However, the war in Europe directly impacted policies and sparked conflicts in the wider Western Hemisphere years before U.S. In terms of understanding the impact of WWI in the Americas, most of the focus has traditionally been on the events that led to the entry of the United States into the war, and how this impacted the conflict in the Allies’ favor. ![]() Though nearly all the significant battles of the war were fought in Europe, the process of imperialism and colonialism, begun long before the cataclysm of 1914, ensured that Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas would participate in the conflict in one way or another. ![]() Part of what separated World War I from all the previous conflicts in human history was its global scope. The Caribbean Theater?: Haiti and the First World War ![]()
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