The Sandinista revolution and the limits of the Cold War in Latin America: the dilemma of non-intervention during the Nicaraguan crisis, 1977–78NicaraguaVenezuelaPanamaCosta RicaCubaMexicoUnited Statesnon-interventionrevolutionFSLNThis paper seeks to understand the construction of a broad alliance between...
The United States and the Caribbean Legion: Democracy, dictatorship, and the origins of the Cold War in Latin America, 1945--1950 (Dominican Republic, Nicaragua). 来自 掌桥科研 喜欢 0 阅读量: 27 作者: RE Clinton 摘要: In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Truman administration ...
Greg GrandinBlackwell Publishing LtdGreg Grandin, "Off the Beach: The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War," in A Companion to Post-1945 America, ed. Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig (New York: Blackwell, 2002), 426-45, quotation on 430....
Built in the 16th century, it is the largest cathedral in Latin America and the tallest building in the city. Its imposing façade is adorned with gargoyles, and its interior is filled with beautiful stained glass windows. The cathedral is also home to the remains of two Mexican saints, ...
Superb study of third world’s role in Cold War, which illuminates the present as much as the past. Focuses on American and Soviet Cold War strategies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, including Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Angola, Ethiopia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, and Afghanistan. Extremely...
As demonstrated in the analysis, the Cold War in Latin America was experienced as a struggle between North and South rather than East and West. In the historical account presented by the history textbook analysed, the longstanding relations of cooperation and support between Latin America...
Speaking nearly a year to the day since ordering an invasion that has triggered the biggest confrontation with the West since the depths of the Cold War, Putin said Russia would achieve its war aims and accused the West of trying to destroy Russia. Cautioning the United States that it was ...
The US and USSR became involved in political and military conflicts in the Third World countries of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. To alleviate the risk of a potential nuclear war, both sides sought relief of political tensions through détente in the 1970s. In ...
As the cold-war struggle continued in Southeast Asia, in the Middle East, in Africa (in nations such as Congo (Kinshasa), Angola, and others), and in Latin America (where the United States supported the Alliance for Progress to counter leftist appeal), both the Soviet Union and the ...
It gained wider influence amongst left-nationalist economic policies in Cold War Latin America. Dependency Theory argued for the creation of import substitution as a means of recapitalising Latin American economies and thus break out of the commodities trap which kept these states in a dependent and...