<Li> Turks and Caicos </Li> <P> Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten are all presently separate constituent countries, formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles . Along with Netherlands, they form the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . Citizens of these islands have full Dutch citizenship . </P> <P> Since the Monroe Doctrine, the United States gained a major influence on most Caribbean nations . In the early part of the twentieth century this influence was extended by participation in The Banana Wars . Areas outside British or French control became known in Europe as "America's tropical empire". </P> <P> Victory in the Spanish--American War and the signing of the Platt amendment in 1901 ensured that the United States would have the right to interfere in Cuban political and economic affairs, militarily if necessary . After the Cuban revolution of 1959 relations deteriorated rapidly leading to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis and successive US attempts to destabilise the island . The US invaded and occupied Hispaniola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti) for 19 years (1915--34), subsequently dominating the Haitian economy through aid and loan repayments . The United States invaded Haiti again in 1994 and in 2004 were accused by CARICOM of arranging a coup d'état to remove elected Haitian leader Jean - Bertrand Aristide . </P>

By the early 20th century which foreign country was dominant in the caribbean