1. US and Third World Intervention I.Post WWII Decolonization II.Entrance into Middle East III.Covert Activities IV.Entrance into Vietnam

2. I. Post WWII Decolonization  Independence and National Self-Determination  Non-Alignment  Fear of Revolution

3. II. Entrance into Middle East  European Post War Weakness  Power Vacuum and US Investment  Pan-Arabic Movement  Gamal Abdul Nasser

4. III. Covert Activities  “Our Back Yard”  Defending US Corporate  Two Case Studies  Guatemala  Cuba

5. Cuba’s “Rock-Star” Revolution

6.  Selling the Revolution in the US  Fidel in New York  Guerrillas at the Lincoln Memorial

7.  Movement to Communism  Bay of Pigs Trial  Brezhnev an Fidel (1974)

8. IV. Entrance into Vietnam  French Indochina and the Truman doctrine  French War: 1946-1954  Ho Chi Minh and Nationalism