Latin America in the Mid-Twentieth Century as depicted by Chasteen Flashcards
What were the 1950s a time of for Latin Americans?
a time of frustration
what country replaced Europe as model for progress in 1950?
the United States
how did the United State’s relationship with Latin America change?
the United States no longer acted like a good neighbor
what started the change in relationship between latin america and the united states?
the announcement of the Marshall Plan
what was the Marshall Plan and why did it create tension between the US and Latin America?
the marshall plan was a program to give aid to countries in attempt to prevent the rise of communism, but Latin America only got 2 percent of the aid
what did Latin america get from the United States instead of aid?
economic subordination
what were the industries in Latin America during the 1950s?
the industries that appeared in latin america during this time were subsidiaries of US multinational corporations
what were these factories like and what was the result?
they installed used equipment from the US in these factories and the result was that they couldn’t compete with the factories in the United States
how did the US view Latin America opposition to their form of industrialization?
they saw it as a creeping form of communism
how did the US began to view latin america?
they saw communism everywhere
what is example of how the US reacted to latin America in Guatemala?
a guatamela OAS representative voted against the anticommunist declaration of Caracas. The US abandoned its 1933 pledge of non intervention and sent proxy forces
what were proxy forces?
proxy forces were recruited men among the local enemies of the local government
in what other ways did the cold war affect latin america?
it affected latin american literature with most authors side to the left
what was example of the cold war’s effect on literature?
Pablo Neruda was the most popular poet of twentieth-century Latin America–and his writing was about siding with the people, which meant the revolutionaries
