Chapter 32 GSPRITE Notes

Social           

Guatemalan reforms of Jose Arevelo

Castro’s reforms for Cuba

Military Officers in Latin American (how do they see themselves)

Latin American population- since 1950 it has doubled

Problems faced by Latin America

Political

Political institutions remain unchanged (dictatorships)

CIA in Guatemala

Fidel Castro

26^th of July Movement

Ernesto Che Guevara

New Cuban Government-Type of Gov’t?  Received support from who?

Tactics used by military governments in Latin America

Invasion of Panama

Religious

Dominate religion is Roman Catholic

Intellectual/ Technology

1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd World

Where can we find communism today?

“Banana Republics”

“Good Neighbor Policy”

Containment of Communism-How does it affect Latin America?

Economy

United Fruit Company

Percentage of imports Cuba received from U.S. before embargo=3/4

Chapter 32 Power-point......

Just a reminder of the tutoring schedule for this week......
I will be around before and after school on Wednesday and after school on Thursday of this week.  I will not be in the building on Friday so their will be no review the morning of the test.

C&C Essay Topic for April 16th.......

We will be completing a full Compare and Contrast essay in class on Tuesday, April 16th.  Here is the prompt you will address......

Compare and contrast how the First World War and its outcomes affected Two of the following regions in the period from the war through the 1930's
-East Asia
-Middle East
-South Asia (Indian Subcontinent)

Chapter 31 GSPRITE Notes

Geography

-Countries of the Eastern Block

-Division of German territory

-Countries that had communist governments separate from Soviet Union- Albania, Greece and Yugoslavia

Political

-Colonies that breakaway from European control (Egypt, Vietnam and India)

-Solidarity

-Nikita Khrushchev- How did he change Soviet government after Stalin?

-Mikhail Gorbachev

-NATO-Why was it established?  What did it do?

Economic

-Marshall Plan

-Western European countries received aid to fight communism

-Military spending was #1 in US during Cold War

-Welfare state-What services were being offered?

-Technocrat

-European Economic Community (EU)

-European economy post WWII?- All time high,  low unemployment

Chapter 31 Notes

CCOT Essay Prompts for Friday....

Here are the three locations/ dates for the CCOT essay prompts we will be completing this Friday.  These particular essays will have you select one of the locations listed for each question.  Remember that there will be specific GSPRITE topics you will need to attached to these topics to complete a thesis.  You will only be responsible for writing a thesis statement for each prompt.

#1- Time Period: 1750-1914 C.E.
       Locations: Latin America/Caribbean, Russia and Sub-Saharan Africa

#2- Time Period: 1450-1750 C.E.
       The Americas, China, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa

#3- Time Period: 600-1750 C.E.
       Trans-Saharan, Silk Road, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea