QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION (WEEK 3)

What was the Platt Amendment?

How did the Platt Amendment interfere with the professed American desire to deliver a “free and independent” nation to the Cuban people?

In what other ways did the United States attempt to shape Cuba’s political destiny?

In what ways did the United States become an empire in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries?

Why did the United States and Britain reach a state of rapprochement in the early twentieth century?