Cuba, Haiti, Honduras and others were rewarded for their involvement in the war by a seat at the top table.

Michael Streeter is a writer and journalist who worked for many years as a journalist, including spells as news editor of the Independent on Sunday and as editor of the Scottish Daily Express. He has written books on a variety of subjects ranging from the history of witchcraft to internet crime. He also wrote Life&Times: Franco (2005), South America and the Treaty of Versailles, published in the Makers of the Modern World series.