Lesson 22

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Question SA-7. Here is the text reference (p. 215/3):

Political instability in Nicaragua led to a long series of U.S. military interventions in the period from 1907 to 1933. The U.S. presence was welcomed by some Nicaraguan politicians and strongly resisted by others. One of those who resisted was General Agusto C. Sandino, who in the late 1920's led an effective guerrilla campaign against the U.S. Marines and their Nicaraguan allies. Toward the end of the Hoover administration, with the U.S. in the depths of the Depression, the U.S. government decided that a protracted campaign against Sandino and his insurgents was politically damaging and militarily unwinnable without a major commitment of U.S. forces.