Throughout American history, the U.S. government has acted solely for personal gain. Terrorizing Native Americans and forcing them to assimilate to American Culture, imposing their will in the Cuban government, as well as, taking away Japanese Americans rights and putting them in internment camps. Greed and paranoia, inherent to American culture, have caused the American government to expand their cultural influence through imperialism while ignoring the indigenous people and causing high tensions with other cultures. When the U.S. saw it fit to expand into the Western region of the country they only had one thing in their way, Native Americans. The U.S. government used the excuse that they needed to be removed and put on reservations to “protect” …show more content…
The U.S. saw Fidel Castro as a leader who could not be trusted because of his ties close to communism. The Bay of Pigs was the U.S. government’s way to attempt to control the country of Cuba. When the U.S. backed invasion failed and became a public affair, Kennedy gave a speech on why he thinks it is necessary to act now against the “Dictatorship regime”, he Says, “Secondly, it is clear that this nation, in concert with all the free nations of this hemisphere, must take an even closer and more realistic look at the menace of external Communist intervention and domination in Cuba… The evidence is clear, and the hour is late. We and our Latin friends will have to face the fact that we cannot postpone any longer the real issue of the survival of freedom in this hemisphere” (Alpha History). The Americans feared communism and saw the only way to rid it by expanding their influence into Cuba. They did this without the consent of many Cubans and did it for own personal American gain. Their paranoia fueled their drive to intervene in Cuba, as they saw it