Talk:Pandemic: Plague Z (Map Game)/@comment-26389738-20170117183345/@comment-5590986-20170118141350

Technically, the Monroe Doctrine had led to a larger impact in the Americas (although US didn't start taking it very seriously until after the Mexican-American War and Civil War)

Before the Mexican-American war, many European powers disregarded the US because they were weak. In truth, the US was kind of powerless against the European Powers at the time before the Mexican-American War. During the Civil War, France was having its foot all over Mexico and Britain in the Honduras but the Americans were powerless due to the Civil War happening.

The prime examples of the Monroe Doctrine actually being enforced was under Teddy Roosevelt (and McKinley) and Kennedy. But Kennedy was one of the few that actually had an excuse to provoke the Monroe Doctrine without being called an Imperialist. (Since Monroe Doctrine was provoked mainly as an instrument of a casus belli with European Powers).

It was during the time where the Soviets having its foot all over Cuba with its nuclear missiles and such. Kennedy provoked the doctrine to get rid of Soviet Influence in Cuba. While it did succeed in getting the Soviets out, their influence still remained.

But TL;DR, USA in this game would realistically put pressure on Germany, but not go to war because of NATO.

Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine