United States occupation of Nicaragua | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Part of the Banana Wars | |||||||
![]() United States Marines with the captured flag of Augusto C. Sandino in 1932 | |||||||
| |||||||
Belligerents | |||||||
![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() (1927–1933) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
First occupation (1912–1925): 7 killed (5 marines & 2 sailors) 16 marines wounded (all in 1912)[1] Second occupation (1926–1933): 136 marines killed (32 killed-in-action, 15 died of wounds, and 5 murdered by mutinous National Guardsmen)[2] 75 killed (Nicaraguan National Guardsmen)[2] |
First occupation (1912–1925): Unknown Second occupation (1926–1933): 1,115 Sandinista insurgents killed[3] |
The United States occupation of Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933 was part of the Banana Wars, when the U.S. military invaded various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934. The formal occupation began in 1912, even though there were various other assaults by the U.S. in Nicaragua throughout this period. American military interventions in Nicaragua were designed to stop any other nation except the United States of America from building a Nicaraguan Canal.
Nicaragua assumed a quasi-protectorate status under the 1916 Bryan–Chamorro Treaty. President Herbert Hoover (1929–1933) opposed the relationship. On January 2, 1933, Hoover ended the American intervention.[4]