Modern Test 3 Part 3 Latin America
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1934 | year Cuba becomes indep (was like a US procterate) |
| Batista 1934- 1959 | DATES; a soldier; non-wealthy background; rigged elections; leader of Cuba; US cuts off aid to him March 1958 |
| Castro | (1926- ); fairly wealthy background; went to university; parents from Sp; he & bro (Raul) lead attack on military base (July 26, 1953)- failure, 15 yrs jail, bt let out early; 1955 meet Che Guevara in Mexico; 1956 land on Cuban coast- make it back to mountains to form guerrilla group; finally comes out as a comm in 1961; comes to pwr Jan 1959: gets control/ side of military, nationalizes things, expropriates any large farm, repudiates the Rio Pact, arrests anti-Castro peep (they flee to FL); 1960: trade embargo begins- he turns to USSR for oil; Jan 3, 1961: US break diplomatic relations w/ Cuba |
| Guantanamo Bay | place in Cuba where we still have a military base |
| Mathews | a times writer; stayed w/ Castro peep in forest; we tell him to get out |
| January 1959 | date Castro comes to power |
| Bay of Pigs | April 1961; plan by Dulles; we train Cuban exiles in S. Florida; we pretend we weren't behind it; maybe we were supposed to help them? failure. Castro more popular |
| Operation Mongoose | a series of sabotage for US on Cuba; we would sneak over and burn things and stuff; turned Cuba towards USSR; assassination plans; CIA joins w/ Mafia |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Oct 1962; USSR gave Castro some 'Surface to Air Missiles' (SAMs); we go to UN; we "quarantine" Cuba; TENSE; they back down & we unofficially tell USSR we won't invade anymore; get Test Ban Treaty & Hot Line |
| De-Con | 1: war; 2: eminent; 3: crisis. we were in 2 during Missile Crisis! |
| Test Ban Treaty | Aug 1963; says you can no longer test nuclear weapons b/c they're bad for the enviorment/ peep (can test underground) |
| Turkey | but we had missiles in ___ pointed towards USSR! |
| Che Guevara d. 1967 | DATE; wants to spread Maoism? "We need to create many Vietnams"; goes to Bolivia (thinks it perfect for comm) bt captured/ executed- becomes martyr |
| July 26 Movement | name of the movement when Castro & bro lead attack on military base but it fails and he gets arrested (will later walk out of jail) |
| Leopold II | king of Belgium; largest stockholder in the company that owned the Congo; after he dies, Congo is owned by Belgium |
| 1960 | year Belgium gets its indep (VERY abrupt) |
| Lumumba | d. 1961; PM of Belgium 60-61; admired Nkrumo (pan-Africanism, throwing off west); overthrown by his gov't; handed over to Tshombe by Kasuvubu & Mobutu; killed; becomes new martyr to pan-Africanists & comm martyr to USSR |
| Kasuvubu | prez of Belgium. HAD to name Lumumba PM b/c he had the biggest army; hand Lumumba over to Tsombe |
| Mobutu | was a Sergent then commander of the military; hand Lumumba over to Tshombe; emerges from Simba Rebellion as dictator; finally overthrown 1997; "the guide", "Mobutism" |
| Tshombe | tries to have Katanga (area) succeed; a little better w/ west, so west wants him to succeed; hires white mercenaries; appeals to UN for troops- not fast enough; turns to USSR |
| Katanga | area in south east of Belgium; where most of the mineral wealth is |
| Hammarskjold | d. 1961; secretary general of UN; goes to Congo bt his plane crashes and he dies |
| Simba Rebellion | means 'lion'; battle; Mobutu emerges from it- is dictator till 1997 |
| Zaire | what is the Congo called 1971- 1997? |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | what is the Congo now called? |
| Laurent Kabila | when Mobutu is toppled, he takes over; a resistance leader; shot by his own peep in 2001; now Congo ruled by his son |
| Joseph Kabila | (2001- )dude who rules Congo now; he is okay- mild dictatorship |
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