That was President Theodore Roosevelt. However a little back story on the Canal is that the US government actually covertly started and funded the Panamanian Revolution which separated Panama from Columbia and in the end the US forced Panama into giving up the land that would eventually be the Panama Canal however the US covered their tracks and formed an agreement with France to make it seem as if France had bought the land so it was all legit on the international scene then France handed it over to the US who completed the construction of the canal. <span />
The republican part was formed
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Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
The corollary stated that not only were the nations of the Western Hemisphere not open to colonization by European powers, but that the United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in those countries.
Explanation:
The event which started the Gulf War in 1991 was a) the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. There were the largest amount of coalition forces during this war since World War II, with most of them being from the United States, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and Egypt fighting for Iraq to immediately stop it's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.