As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, the United States made decisions on foreign policy with the goal of containing communism. To maintain its hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. intervened in Guatemala in 1954 and removed its elected president, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, on the premise that he was soft on communism.
I pretty sure It cuold be the " Protecting human rights"
They avoided washing their clothes because they were afraid of the gods punishment...gross, huh?
The answer is most likely- the British were disregarding our rights on the seas by seizing our sailors