1. How did the Cold War affect Latin America? Why did the United States get involved?

Through the same time as the Cold War, the United States and USSR were taking the power they had in
the world and using it in contradiction of each other to try to abolish the other. In the process of doing
so, the countries were inquiring every other one in the world to take sides with one of them that they
would have support from, which was based on the way your government ran its system politically. In
Latin America the leaders presented violence and cruelty irrespective of communist or not at this time.
Some countries in Latin America like Guatemala, Chile, Nicaragua, and Cuba were communist states, so
the United States often times intervened in order to fight against the Soviet Unions power.

2. What is the difference between left and right wing? And why is it so confusing? The people of the
right wing versus the people of the left are those who have different opinions politically. Those who
believe that more people should be taking part in vital government decisions to give the people a voice
in what goes on in their society are called the liberals. They believe that health care should be handed to
the people by the government. These people are from the left wing. They have one person making
decisions in more extreme right wings, theyre smaller systems, and they think that the government
should not help the people as much. They think people are responsible for their actions, and think their
effort towards what they want is whats going to help them in society. Neither is believed to have better
benefits than the other considering they both have flaws.

3. Why did the United States get involved with Cuba? The United States relied heavily on economic
income from Cuba. They controlled all sugar production from the area, which happened to be their
main crop. All of Cubas money was going mostly towards the United States and their government
which didnt run smoothly, so most of the people in their population were classified as poor.
Fulgencia Batista overthrew the countries government in a coup lasting for six years, when Fidel
Castro overthrew his government. As a citizen of the United States, access into Cuba is not allowed
to this day, and we no longer trade with them. Censorship is at a high in the area and Castro is still in
power. This has made people very unhappy, and because of this, many have tried to escape the area
to get to Florida.

Whats a banana republic?

This is a country that doesnt have any government power but runs by a company for producing Items to
export which is often times bananas. In the twentieth century, Guatemala was one of these countries.

How did the CIA get involved with Guatemala? Military forces had full control of the country until 1950.
One went by the name Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, and he put in place many land reforms that were
communist. The United States, being a very strong anti-communist nation, hated that he had done this.
The CIA was made to help overthrow Guzman in 1954. It followed a lot of fighting and violence under
the rule of military junta. Still to this day, Guatemala has a strong military force, and they didnt begin
their democratic government until 1996.

6. What was the other infamous September 11th?

Besides the terrorist attack on the United States, there is another significance to the day of 9/11. The
socialist leader named Salvador Allende took full control of Chile in 1970. Augusto Pinochet hated him,
and worked with the United States to overthrow the government in a military coup on September 11th in
1973.
7. Who were the disappeared in Argentina?
When the great depression hit Argentina, meat production was making a lot less money than it had.
People were desperate, and starting looking towards authoritarian leadership, and the leader Juan
Peron was a military general who took control after World War II. His wife was very popular to the
people, and during her life she gained much support and loved what she got. She gained the most
support from the poor workers.
8. Why was it controversial when the United States intervened in Nicaragua? Because they were
connected to Cuba and the USSR, who supplied them with weapons. The United States came in to show
support towards a group called the Contras.
9. What violence occurred in Brazil and El Salvador? Brazil turned into a dictatorship right after the Great
Depression. Their dictator turned Brazil into a fascist state. El Salvador broke out into a civil war in 1979
between left wing and right wing guerilla fighters.

If democracy is a goal of the L.A nations, what does a nation have to have in order to achieve this goal? I
trust that in order to be a democracy, a nation has to have strictly compulsory human right laws. In
order to be a democracy a nation needs to have fair and equivalent privileges for gender and jobs. Any
female should be permissible to do a man job and vice versa, because in a democracy, people all can
work towards what they want, they are free in this kind of government.