The document discusses America's historical involvement in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the Cold War. It established that the US would oppose European colonization in the Americas and consider it a threat. However, America's actions such as 79 military interventions were criticized by some as its own form of colonization. The Roosevelt Corollary expanded America's right to intervene in Latin America. The Good Neighbor Policy later sought to scale back interventionism due to growing unpopularity. During the Cold War, the US grew involved again through actions like the Bay of Pigs invasion and ousting of Salvador Allende in Chile.