The Cuban Revolution was an extremely influential event in Latin America, if not the world itself. ... In many places in Latin America, people were poor and did not have access to basic necessities: 'The Chileans' standard of living is lower than in Argentina. ... The US, their relationship with all of Latin America previously being predatory and tyrannical (corporations abusing land/people), became obsessed with getting rid of Communism in Cuba and all of Latin America, working in tandem with several Latin American governments in order to 'expel the Commie threat', the de...

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President Eisenhower recognizes the great living standards that Americans now possessed and lists them in a press conference in 1954. ... The American people were afraid of the spread of communism and its lack of the freedoms which the bill of rights gives. ... To preserve democracy and to relieve tensions, Eisenhower "s administration proposed the containment of communism as it did by currying favor with European, latin American and asian nations. They helped Europe economically, helped Korea and supported democratic Vietnam against communism, and by close interaction with Latin America (th...

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It is of the utmost importance because while it is technically limited to the North Atlantic area, the treaty countries exercise control over a humungous bulk of the strength of the free world, and what happens in Western Europe has direct and immediate political and economic repercussions in Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, and Latin America. ... This will affect our economy tremendously and in effect create thousands of new jobs for American workers to function in. ...

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I, Rigoberta Mench Mench , Rigoberta., I Rigoberta Mench , An Indian Woman in Guatemala, Verso, 1984 (edit by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray) I, Rigoberta Mench is the biographical account of the winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Mench of Guatemala. The story of her life is the...

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This policy was created to keep the United States from getting involved in problems that could and would occur in Central America. ... This is a perfect example of the United States sidestepping policy and becoming entangled in Latin American affairs. ... When President Reagan was elected in 1980, he came into office promising to restore America's military and moral prestige in the world. ... In compliance with the law, large numbers of staff from the CIA and the Defense department were withdrawn from Central America. ... On October 5, 1986 an Enterprise C-123K plane with lethal su...

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The Cold War also led America into adapting a doctrine called the containment doctrine where the foreign policy transformed into trying to oppose the Soviets militarily and diplomatically all around the world. ... The US wanted to prevent Vietnam from turning into a communist nation so in 1964 they intervened militarily in the small Asia country even though they didn't have suppose of the American people. ... These levels are important because the Cold War could have easily had gone the other way because in Latin America the democratic ideas weren't work too well and after the Viet...

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In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. The Soviet border outpost situated on the Ussuri launched a small contingent t...

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To be a realist is to have a dark pessimistic and generally harsh view of humanity. Men like Thomas Hobbs authored early classical realist work on the subject of human kind. However other roots can also be found in the work of Machiavelli. His work "The Prince" establishes a core theme of realist th...

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Huntington states the "most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating" (Huntington, 1993) what he identified as eight specific civilizations: "Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and African" (Huntington, 1993). ... Fourth, as the West, and America in particular, becomes more and more powerful, popular and elite, smaller nation-states without access to or a desire for Westernization react and try to nurture their local cultures and traditional identities, thus leading to non-Western habi...

• Word Count: 1840
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