What impact did the Mexican war have us relations with Mexico and latin America?

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"The relationship of the United States and Mexico has been greatly influenced by a long land border, http://www.answers.com/topic/asymmetry in economic and political power, deep-rooted social and economic ties, and a http://www.answers.com/topic/troublesome history of intervention and war associated with Washington's search for new territory, resources, security, and stability. By the end of the twentieth century, Mexico was the United States's second largest trading partner, a key member of the three-state North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the source of millions of immigrants to the United States, and a http://www.answers.com/topic/thorn in the side of Washington when it came to border crime, drug trafficking, corruption, and a set of foreign policy principles often out of http://www.answers.com/topic/sync with its neighbor to the north. The differences between the United States and Mexico do not mean that relations have not improved considerably since the end of the Cold War and the creation of http://www.answers.com/topic/north-american-free-trade-agreement; but important legacies from a complex and difficult past continue to influence U.S.-Mexican relations, including a http://www.answers.com/topic/residual anti-Americanism in Mexico tied to the loss of over half its national territory in the nineteenth century and the way Mexico is often treated in the conduct of American foreign policy. Relations between the United States and Mexico have evolved from a pattern of either conflict or http://www.answers.com/topic/indifference to a new partnership in their http://www.answers.com/topic/bilateral relations. From Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821 through the violence and http://www.answers.com/topic/turmoil of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917), relations between the United States and Mexico were dominated by conflict and intervention. During this early period the United States was the dominant power, pursuing its interests-territorial expansion and national security concerns-through military force and diplomatic http://www.answers.com/topic/bluster. The conflict associated with the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution led President Woodrow Wilson to invade Mexico several times and to occupy it for brief periods in order to protect U.S. economic interests built up during the nineteenth century and to keep foreign powers from developing alliances with Mexico. Mexico and the United States formed a new relationship during World War II (1942-1945), eschewing the foreign policy of http://www.answers.com/topic/intervention-and-nonintervention and sensitivity to issues related to national sovereignty in favor of heightened collaboration on a broad range of wartime issues. During the Cold War the United States and Mexico developed a new style in which the two countries bargained on some issues and mostly neglected, or ignored, one another on other matters until the late 1980s. With the end of the Cold War the United States and Mexico began a period of extraordinary cooperation, marked by NAFTA and immigration, debt relief, and http://www.answers.com/topic/antidrug efforts. Presidents George H. W. Bush and http://www.answers.com/topic/carlos-salinas not only championed the creation of NAFTA but also put in motion a new relationship based on a less ideological and more pragmatic approach to bilateral issues. Presidents Bill Clinton and Ernesto Zedillo met frequently to discuss bilateral issues of concern to the two countries during a period marked by strain over drug trafficking, migration, and Mexico's debt. The 2000 defeat of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) after more than http://www.answers.com/topic/seventy years of continual rule caused a http://www.answers.com/topic/stir in Washington, uncertain as to how a relative unknown-President Vicente Fox and a coalition headed by the National Action Party (PAN)-would deal with the United States after years of predictability under PRI presidents. With the almost simultaneous election of Fox and George W. Bush in 2000, relations between the United States and Mexico showed further signs of continuing the historic shift to a more productive partnership based on the salience of bilateral issues such as trade, democracy, immigration, drug trafficking, economic stability, and the environment. The analysis that follows examines five broad periods of U.S.-Mexican relations: (1) conflict, intervention, and turmoil between 1821 and 1940; (2) World War II and the beginnings of bilateral cooperation; (3) the Cold War, an era of bilateral http://www.answers.com/topic/bargaining-2 and policy http://www.answers.com/topic/negligence; (4) constructing a more permanent relationship, 1988-2000; and (5) the new millennium."