CWLA+Midterm


 * US involvement with Latin America**

[|https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/monro]
 * Monroe Doctrine**

Video: Monroe Doctrine - History Channel (1:47) []


 * Mexican-American War (1846-1848)**

The Annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1845–1848 []

Mexican-American War: Disputed Territory []

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 * Territorial Expansion, Filibustering, and U.S. Interest in Central America and Cuba, 1849–1861**

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 * Blaine and Pan Americanism, 1880s/1890s**

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 * Spanish-American war**

US Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism[]

The Spanish-American War []

Importance of Roosevelt Corollary as the background to multiple US interventions []
 * Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904**

The Roosevelt Corollary Explained in 3 Minutes: US History Review []

{Just read the introduction] []
 * Sphere of influence notion**

[] Dollar Diplomacy []
 * Dollar Diplomacy, 1909–1913**

Dollar Diplomacy []

US aim will be to protect Panama Canal during WWI and WWII []
 * Building the Panama Canal, 1903–1914**

Banana Wars (read up to "notable veterans"} []
 * Interventions:**

Marines in the Banana Wars []

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 * The Great Depression and U.S. Foreign Policy**

Interventions generally ended with beginning of Great Depression

Based on non-intervention [] Good Neighbor Policy, 1933 []
 * Good Neighbor policy under FDR**

Good Neighbor Policy []

FDR speech on Good Neighbor Policy []

US did not react adversely []
 * Mexican Expropriation of Foreign Oil, 1938 [nationalization theme]**

US pressure to support the Allies
 * World War II**

Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance Re: 1945 (February-March) Act of Chapultepec and 1947 Rio Treaty []
 * Act of Chapultepec: pledge of collective security**

[All the material on that wiki page] http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/US+versus+Soviets
 * United States versus the Soviet Union**


 * Guatemala**

Video: Guatemala - CIA Overthrow Jacobo Arbenz (16:00) http://youtu.be/nW2DPZW-_js

Video: Arbenz & the CIA, Guatemala 1950's (7:24) []

1954 Coup overthrowing Arbentz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Jacobo Árbenz (1951-1954) Guatemala) [read down to "Later Life"] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_%C3%81rbenz

Carlos Castillo Armas (Guatemala) [read down to "Presidency and Assassination"] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castillo_Armas


 * Cuba**

Video: Cuban Revolution (1:44:00) continued http://youtu.be/f0952Hj4fWw

Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution []

Fulgencio Batista, from army sergeant to dictator http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/batista.htm

Che Guevara https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara

Video: Cold War - Cuba [10 of 24] (44:00) Cuban Missile Crisis http://youtu.be/yOxeZt217uw


 * Dominican Republic**

Rafael Trujillo []

Dominican Republic civil war 1965 Specialize in the US intervention []

20 Years after Dominican War, wounds linger []


 * Chile**


 * Timeline:**

September 1964 Chile: Eduardo Frei, supported by US, defeats Salvador Allende, in the Presidential election

September 1970 Chile: Salvador Allende wins a plurality of votes for President

15 September 1970 Chile: US starts Project FUBELT to block Allende from Presidency

22 October 1970 Chile: General Rene Schneider assassinated by Chilean military

24 October 1970 Chile: Chilean legislature ratifies election results>>Allende is installed as President

9 November 1970 Chile: US policy paper NSDM 93>>US hostility to Allende

Allende is President from 1970-1973

March 1973 Chile: Allende's Unidad Popular political party gains legislative seats

August 1973 Chile: Chilean truckers strike.

11 September 1973 Chile: Chilean military (led by Augusto Pinochet) overthrows Allende, who commits suicide.

24 September 1973 Chile: US grants diplomatic recognition to Pinochet government. Pinochet will rule Chile for the next 17 years

September 1974 Chile: Chilean General Carlos Prats and wife are assassinated in Argentina by Chilean agents

November 1975 Chile: Operation Condor (a form of state-sponsored international terrorism). Military dictators in Southern Cone countries will hunt down political leftists wherever they are in exile.

June 1976 Chile: Kissinger meets in Santiago with Pinochet assuring him of US backing. Kissinger delivers a speech defending human rights.

September 1976 Chile: Orlando Letelier, former Chilean Ambassador to US, is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by Chilean agents.


 * Readings:**

Salvador Allende https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende

The Allende Years and the Pinochet Coup, 1969–1973 (US State Department) https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/allende

Augusto Pinochet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet

1973 Chilean coup d'état https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27état

Military dictatorship of Chile (1973-1990) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_of_Chile_(1973–90)


 * Operation Condor**

Operation Condor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor