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Latin American

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#H1180 Tikitoki timeline extra credit assignment
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#H1180 Military dictatorship was preferable to democratic governance for U.S. foreign policy movers and shakers during the Cold War their main purpose was to contain communism in Latin America.

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#H1180 During the Cold War, the US perceived that Latin America had a weakness towards communism. Consequently, US military interventions were justified as actions for preventing communism and for promoting democracy.

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#H1180 Nixon's opposition to the democratically elected president, socialist Salvador Allende, helped pave the way for a military coup whose legacy of death and despotism burden Chile quiet.

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#H1180 The cost of containing communism in Latin America was deadly, the Mayan genocide in Guatemala is a clear example.

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#H1180 The CIA’s Bay of Pigs operation fail in Cuba in 1961 because the invasion was widely expected and because Fidel Castro’s army had the support of the Soviet Union and Cuban’s support.

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#H1180 United Fruit Company in Guatemala violated the human rights of indigenous Guatemalans most of them illiterate Mayan peasants treated more or less like animals by the owners of the coffee plantations.

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#H1180 Marxism and Latin American nationalism were the bedrock of revolutionary feelings for Cuba and Guatemala, which lead to the creation of the military in the 1960s by a new US aid policy to contain communism in Latin America.

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#H1180 dictatorship-style government and oppression of poor people created a neoliberal atmosphere that detonated revolutions in Guatemala and Cuba.

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#H1180 Ubicos’s oppressive policies and exploitation of indigenous people created the conditions for revolution in Guatemala.

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#H1180 Latin American social revolutions during the twentieth century helped to shape and rebuild Latin America and allowed them to become economically independent and industrialized countries.

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#H1180 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán created the “Gaitanista program” to end political and economic monopoly for the elite in the Colombian republic, implementing programs that allowed strengthen democracy and the economy of Colombia.

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#H1180 Lazaro Cardenas Mexican’s presidency fulfilled the radical promise of the Mexican revolution by implementing land reform and nationalization of the Mexican oil industry (PEMEX).

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#H1180 Lázaro Cárdenas and Colombia's Jorge Eliécer Gaitán were truly progressive figures implementing land reforms that benefit most of the country’s population which was the middle and lower-class citizens.

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#H1180 The Mexican revolution in 1910 is the first major political, social, and cultural revolution of the twentieth century because it ended with the neocolonialism system.

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#H1180 Porfirism and Peronism, are examples of nationalism, and populism can turn into dictatorships.

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#H1180 Nationalism and populism were double-edged swords because allowed local leaders to manipulate and exploit indigenous communities.

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#H1180 Populism and nationalism were a successful pathway to Latin America’s economic independence, “nationalization” of their industries lead workers to benefit from social security, welfare programs, and land reform.

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#H1180 Nationalism initiated independence from European control and Latin Americans became proud of their own culture, music, fashion, art, dance, and literature.

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#H1180 The Great Depression crisis was an opportunity for Latin American countries to develop their own pollical forces and get control of their own government.