President Roosevelt immediately worked towards the previous set goal of the U.S. of creating and controlling a canal through Central America. Roosevelt reversed the previous decision by the Walker Commission for a Nicaragua Canal, and moved forward with the acquirement of the French Panama Canal effort. On May 4, 1904, the The U.S. took control of the Panama Canal property.
Aware of the possibility of Europe interfering in the internal affairs of Latin American nations, President …show more content…
foreign policy These concepts included the preservation of America’s global hegemony, the promotion of globalization through the continuing development of liberal international economic institutions, the advancement of the "zone of democratic peace", the repeated employment of military power to ease humanitarian disasters, the isolation and punishment of "rogue" states that threatened regional stability and American security; and the growing concerns about the vulnerability of the U.S. to attacks from these states as well as from terrorist groups.
The United States first peacetime, non-departmental intelligence organization was formed in 1942 by then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The purpose of the Office of Strategic Services or OSS, as it was called, was to collect and analyze strategic information needed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to perform special operations not allocated to other agencies.
During WWII, the OSS provided intelligence to aid military campaigns to policymakers. The OSS worked closely with the FBI on foreign intelligence activities. When the war ended with American victory, the U.S. sentiment was to disband wartime agencies. The OSS was technically eliminated in October 1945; however, their collection, analysis and counterintelligence services were handed over to the State and War