True, as allies. britain, Australia and France aided help when asked.
Individual land ownership did not exist and the idea of selling land to European settlers was foreign to them.
Answer:
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, on the premise that he was soft on communism. In 1997, the CIA released files pertaining to the Guatemalan coup that reignited questions about the motivations for U.S. actions in Guatemala. Was the United States concerned with the containment of communism, or was it acting on behalf of the business interests of the United Fruit Company? In this History Lab, students will examine documents, films, photographs, and other primary source materials to analyze U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War.
Explanation:
Polk believed that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand
entire continent as part of its Manifest Destiny. He believed that the war with
Mexico fitted well with that vision.
When the U.S. won it took over several territories from the Mexicans.
