8B—History of Latin America
Transition to the Cold War: Puerto Rico and Guatemala *************************************************************

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

A. The Guatemalan Spring, 1944-54

Jorge Ubico
Juan José Arévalo (1944-50)
Jacobo Arbenz (1950-54)
1952, land reform
1952-53, Operations PBFortune and PBSuccess
Carlos Castillo Armas
June 18-27, 1954, coup overthrows Arbenz

B. Economic interventions:

John Foster Dulles (secretary of state)
Allen Dulles (CIA director)
John Moors Cabot (asst. secretary for Interamerican Affairs)
March 1954, 10th Pan-American Congress

C. Political interventions:

Marxism as a LA intellectual movt.
Anti-communism as a political movt. w/ US
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