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| Discuss the events in Cuba from 1955-1964 |
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Definition
1)controlled by Fulgencio Batista
2)Fulgencio Batista, an ally of the U.S. government, and friend to U.S. businesses
3)1956 Fidel Castro, a young lawyer attempted and failed to over through the Batista government
4)Castro succeeded and Batista fled
5)Castro rapidly moved Cuba toward a new society based on Marxist Principles
6)Castro nationalized both domestic and foreign owned corporations and instituted egalitarian social reform programs
7)U.S organized an economic boycott and stopped buying Cuban Sugar to disrupt the Cuban economy, and bring Castro down
8)Eisenhower also authorized the CIA to recruit and train anti-Castro Cubans living in the United States to invade Cuba and provide a rallying point for the Cuban population to overthrow Castro
9)Kennedy entered office, he authorized the invasion plans to keep moving
10)April 1961 anti Castro forces bombed Cuban air bases and landed at the Bay of Pigs
11)peasants did not revolt
12)Castro thought the U.S. was trying to overthrow him so he sought the protection of the Soviet Union
13)Castro vowed that he would spread Marxist revolution through Latin America
14)United States far surpassed the Soviet Union in missiles and bombs
15)15 U.S. Jupiter missiles in Turkey was a particular provocation to the Soviet Premier
16)secretly begin to send medium range bombers and medium range missiles to Cuba
17)Khrushchev wanted to show the United States that he was tough, that he could apply pressure to get the Western powers out of Berlin, and moderate the imbalance in the arms race
18)October 1962 U-2’s American Spy Planes discovered missile sites in Cuba some almost operational
19)Kennedy administration worked out the U.S. position
20)soviet missiles and bombs in Cuba must go
21)Soviet Union would be given the opportunity to remove them voluntarily; if they refused the United States would destroy the missiles by air strike or invasion
22)United States was prepared to go to war with the Soviet Union
23)Kennedy put into affect a blockade on Cuba
24)Soviet Union ended up retreating
25)United States promised the Soviet Union that they would not invade Cuba
26)Robert Kennedy informed the Soviet Ambassador tat the United States would remove its missiles from Turkey at some time in the future |
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| Summarize the economic developments in the U.S. and Latin America from about 1945 to about 1988 |
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Definition
1)United States enjoyed good economic times
2)jobs and low unemployment
3)Veterans started families
4)postwar baby boom created a need for consumer goods
5)GI Bill and low interest loans to build homes, resulting in construction jobs
6)1960 per capita income had nearly doubled
7)reasonably priced automobiles were in demand
8)1970’s the prosperity began to decline
9)saw a sharp increase in the price of gasoline
10)inflation
11)end of the 70’s high inflation coupled with high unemployment
12)Latin American countries enjoyed economic prosperity
13)Population explosions in Latin American
14)schemes to create domestic industry failed or stalled
15)trade deficits prevailed |
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| Outline the major developments in Africa from 1945 to the 1980s |
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Definition
1)Africa has been dominated by war, famine and government instability
2)food shortages and famines
3)1970s famine struck in Somalia and Ethiopia
4)Africa moved from a continent of colonies to a continent of independent states
5)Nationalists struggled for independence
6)different ethnic, linguistic and religious communities made unification difficult
7)1966 there was a military coup in Ghana
8)East Africa military actions included attempts to overthrow Idi Amin in Uganda
9)Eritrea rebelled against Ethiopia
10)1970’s Southern Africa was dominated by European imperial powers
11)South Africa dominated its region militarily and economically |
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| Summarize the history of Vietnam from 1954 to 1973 |
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Definition
1)1954, the Geneva Accords divided Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam at the 17 parallel
2)North Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Minh
3)President Ngo Dinh Diem, was anti-communist
4)1959, Ho Chi Minh authorized guerrilla attacks
5)United States supported the South Vietnamese government
6)President Johnson sent about 500,000 troops to Vietnam
7)authorized Operation Rolling Thunder between March 1965 and January 1968
8)majority of Americans against the war
9)President Nixon pursued peace and Vietn1973, North Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Agreement with the United Statesamization of the war |
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