1. Latin America Post WWII
Topics…
Brief review
Cuba and Revolution
South America and Revolution
Central America and Revolution
issues facing Latin America Today

2. 9/10th Grade Review Aztec and Incan empires Defeated by Spanish
Role of disease
Creation of social hierarchy in the New World
Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism
Creoles lead independence movement
Inspired by Fr. and Am. Revolutions
Bolivar and Toussaint
9/10th Grade Review

3. Latin America Post WWII
What are the problems/conflicts facing the world post WWIi?
Communists versus capitalists

4. Cuba.

5. Cuba and Revolution

6. Cuban Revolution Revolution 1950s – Batista – US backed dictator
1959 – Castro led revolution
Dictator
Suspend elections, execute opponents, control press
Nationalizes sugar mills, social programs/welfare state
Trade embarg0
Bay of Pigs Invasion

7. Cuban Missile Crisis Nuclear Crisis Supported by SU
1962 – Khrushchev built 42 missile sites
Cuban Missile Crisis
Remove missiles/no US invasion
Cuba today:
Weak economy
no democracy
Castro ruling family
Normalizing relations with US

9. Central America and Revolution
Nicaragua
El Salvador
1979 – Communist topple US backed gov’t
Led by Daniel Ortega and Sandinistas
Resulting civil war lasts 10 years and destroys economy
Ortega holds free elections in 1990
Communist rebels revolt against gov’t
Support from Ortega
US support anti-communist forces (Contras) in Nicaragua and El Salvador
Iran Contra Affair – mid 1980s
Unstable democracy today

10. Ortega vs. Reagan

11. South America and Unstable Democracies
Juan and Eva Peron
Argentina
Post-WWII
Juan and Eva Peron create a dictatorship
Socialist welfare state
Out by 1955 – military controls politics
Dirty War
Military gov’t abducts and kills leftist revolutionaries (socialists)
15,000 killed
Military gov’t overthrown after Falkland War with GB

12. Issues Today International Organizations Drug Cartels
OAS – Focuses on promoting human rights, democracy, and economic cooperation
NAFTA –Free trade and eliminating tariffs
Drug Cartels
Drugs = $
Violence in Mexico
Unstable governments

13. Issues continued… Unstable and corrupt states
Cash Crops/One Crop Economies -
Unstable economies
Small MC
Unstable Democracies
Lack of middle class
No tradition
Unstable and corrupt states
Brazil/Dilma Rousseff
Venezuela/Nicholas Maduro (Hugo Chavez)

14. South America and Democracy
Free Elections
Citizen Participation
Majority Rule, Minority Rights
Constitutional Government
Hypothesize one way to make sure that each one of the following common practices in a democracy are maintained to ensure the success of democracy
South America and Democracy