1. Cold War Divides: Latin America1

2. Fighting For The Third World
Cold War ( )
Definition- U.S. vs. Soviet Union
Fighting Over 3rd World Developing Nations
Cold War Strategies
CIA vs KGB Fought Over 3rd World Nations
1st World=Democratic, 2nd World=Communists
Foreign Aid, Propaganda, Espionage
Brinkmanship, Surrogate Wars, Alliances
Association of Nonaligned Nations
“Third Force” of Independent Nations
Refused Help From U.S. & Soviets 2

3. Major Strategies Of The Cold War
Foreign Aid
Giving Money To Nations (Marshall Plan)
Espionage
Spying To Uncover Secrets (U2 Incident)
Multinational Alliances
New Alliances (NATO & Warsaw Pact)
Propaganda
Sending Messages To Nations (Radio Free Europe)
Brinkmanship
Better Back Down War Threat (Massive Retaliation)
Surrogate Wars
Indirect War, Backing Opposing Sides (Korea/Vietnam War)

4. Nicaraguan Civil War Civil War in Nicaragua
U.S. backed dictator Samoza since 1933
Sandinistas & Ortega (communists) vs. Contras (U.S. Backed)
Contra Scandal
Civil War Broke out, Free Elections Were Won

5. The Banana Republics Guatemala U.S. overthrows Jacobo Arbenz (1954)
United Fruit Company
Guatemalan Civil War for 36 years
Chile
U.S. sabotages Salvadore Allende (1973)
Augusto Pinochet ends 48 years of democracy

6. The Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro & The Cuban Revolution U.S. Response
U.S. Backed Dictator Fulgencio Batista
Fidel Castro the Lawyer
Nationalizes U.S. Owned Sugar Mills
U.S. Response
U.S. Embargo On Cuba, Castro Turns To Soviets
In 1960 U.S. starts to train anti-Castro Cuban exiles
Fulgencio Batista 6

7. The Bay of Pigs
In April 1961 Cuban exiles trained by the U.S. attack at the Bay of Pigs
America Fails to Provide Air Support
Humiliating Failure

8. The Cuban Missile Crises
-Khrushchev Set Up 42 Missile sites (Protect Cuba)
-JFK Demanded Removal, 13 Days of Brinkmanship

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10. Journal
“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.” –The Truman Doctrine.
“Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.” –Ian Buruma