Transition to the Cold War
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I. Pan-Americanism

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1933-45, Good Neighbor Policy
- 1947, ECLA, Natl. Security Council, CIA

II. Guatemala, 1944-1954

- Juan José Arévalo (1944-50)
- Jacobo Arbenz
(1950-54)
- 1952, land reform

United Fruit Company
John Foster Dulles (secretary of state)
Allen Dulles (CIA director)
John Moors Cabot (asst. secretary for Interamerican Affairs)
Ann Whitman (Eisenhower's personal secretary)

- 1952-53, Operations PBFortune and PBSuccess
- June 18-27, 1954, coup overthrows Arbenz

 

III. Puerto Rico, 1898-1950s

- 1900, Foraker Act; Vieques naval base
- 1910s-20s, Americanization campaign
- 1917, Jones Act
- autonomists vs. unionists vs. nationalists
- Pedro Albizu Campos
- 1933-41, emergency relief aid
- 1941-46, Rexford Tugwell; agrarian reform + Operation Bootstrap
- 1948, Luis Muñoz Marín