US annexes Cuba and Hispanola

In 1917 shortly after the United States had declared war on Germany, President Wilson decides to solve an ongoing US problem in the Caribbean. Currently US armed forces were occupying and running Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Tiring of constant US intervention but fearful of potential foreign intervention he decides to annex these countries. Using the Jones Act as a model, the citizens of these nations became US citizens and each island was organized as a territory. The United States now the 3 territories of Hispanola, Cuba and Porto Rico and the Navy run US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.

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Well during the Grant Presidency DR attempted to garner annexation into the United States. So that helps the first part, but that is also a POD pre 1900. As for Cuba you could have it occupied like OTL after the Spanish-American War, and instead of giving it independence we annex it along with Puerto Rico and the Philippines. I am not sure about how to get Haiti under US control, although at differing points it was basically an American Protectorate, is that enough?
 
I can't imagine the local inhabitants will be happy about this.

Though it will secure US strategic domination of the West Indies, serve as a staging post to interventions in Latin America, and give the Marines some rest from occupation duty.
 
I can't imagine the local inhabitants will be happy about this.

Though it will secure US strategic domination of the West Indies, serve as a staging post to interventions in Latin America, and give the Marines some rest from occupation duty.

Many Puerto Ricans felt the same way. Either let us be a state or let us have Independence. I think this would introduce enough change so that after WW2 all 3 could become states.
 

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Not that hypocrisy is a bar to any particular policy, but it would be inconsistent with the rest of how the US was presenting its war aims to its own people and around the world at the time to do an annexation.
 
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