Havana Conference (1940)

The Havana Conference was a conference held in the Cuban capital, Havana, in July 1940.

In the first years of World War II, as Germany began to take over countries throughout Europe, many colonies in the New World found themselves orphaned, such as those owned by Netherlands, Britain, and France.

At the conference, the United States agreed to share with its neighbors the responsibility of protecting the Monroe Doctrine. That marked a dramatic change in the use of the Monroe Doctrine, which was no longer to be used solely for economic dominance by the United States but in conjunction with its 20 neighbors to defend the collective security of the Western Hemisphere.