COLD WAR IN THE AMERICAS. Readings Smith, Talons, chs. 5-8 Holden&Zolov, selections 70-72, 81-87, 109-113, 120.

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COLD WAR IN THE AMERICAS

Readings Smith, Talons, chs. 5-8 Holden&Zolov, selections 70-72, 81-87, , 120

CHRONOLOGY OF COLD WAR World War II (Europe and Asia) 1946Churchill speech on “iron curtain” 1947Truman Doctrine 1948Berlin airlift 1949Soviet atomic bomb, Communist victory in China Korean War Vietnam War 1962Cuban missile crisis 1989Collapse of Berlin Wall Implosion of Soviet Union

The U.S. and the Cold War Credos and Rules of the Game 1. Bipolar conflict 2. Arms race and “mutual assured destruction” (MAD) 3. The need for “containment” of Soviet expansion 4. Geopolitics, dominoes, and the Third World 5. Marxism and the developing world

Joseph Stalin,

Mao Zedong, 1966

U.S. Policy in the Americas 1. Monroe redux: cordoning off the Americas 2. Economic aid: the Alliance for Progress 3. Purging the body politic 4. Containing revolution: Guatemala (1954) Bay of Pigs (1961) Dominican Republic (1965) Chile (1973) Grenada (1983) Central America (1980s)

Strategic Options for Latin America 1. Reformist: seeking U.S. aid 2. Radical: supporting revolution 3. Reactionary: joining the anti-communist crusade 4. “Non-aligned”: promoting Third World solidarity

Consequences for Latin America 1. Polarization, weakening of political center 2. Ascendancy of right-wing forces 3. Assaults upon the political left 4. Transitions toward democracy 5. Acknowledgement of U.S. hegemony

Reflections 1. Reality vs. ideology 2. Imagining alternatives (?) 3. On the language of “war”