Week 8—History of Latin America
The Cold War...
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Transition to the Cold War
I. Pan-Americanism
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1933-45, Good Neighbor Policy
- 1947, ECLA, Natl. Security Council, CIA
II. Puerto Rico, 1898-1950s
- 1900, Foraker Act
- Vieques
- 1910s-20s, Americanization campaign
- 1917, Jones Act
- autonomists vs. unionists vs. nationalists
- 1933-41, emergency relief aid
- 1942, Rexford Tugwell
- 1948, Luis Muñoz Marín
- Operation Bootstrap
III. Guatemala, 1954
- Jorge Ubico
- Juan José Arévalo (1944-50)
- Jacobo Arbenz (1950-54)
- 1952, land reformUnited Fruit Company
John Foster Dulles (secretary of state)
Allen Dulles (CIA director)
John Moors Cabot (asst. secretary for Interamerican Affairs)- 1952-53, Operations PBFortune and PBSuccess
- June 18-27, 1954, coup overthrows Arbenz