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Flow Chart of the Cold War-HISTORY

By AnnaRech

  • Ending of WWII

    U.S. had...
    the atomic bomb-"the ultimate weapon"
    no war damage home
    an economy with a massive industrial effort

  • Cold War begins

    Washington enacts "containment policies" to stop the Soviet Union from spreading communism
    Conflict: radical nationalism and Marxism vs. neoliberalism

  • Harry S. Truman President

    Democrat

  • International Monetary Fund created

  • The "Rio Pact"

    Began through U.S. incentive, any defining attack on any American state from inside or outside the hemisphere meant an attack on all.

  • Organization of American States (OAS) created

  • The Marshall Plan

  • Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA)

    Latin America's economy was failing because of the structure of the world economy deterring agro-export economies.

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  • The "loss" of China to Mao Zedong

  • Truman's Point Four Program

    Help Latin America with economic problems as they did with Europe

  • The invasion of South Korea

  • The Domino Theory

  • Latin America included in the U.S. Military Security Program

    to "protect" these nations from communism

  • General Dwight D. Eisenhower President

    Republican
    Adopts a laissez-faire stance

  • Colonel Jacobo Árbenz replaced by CIA (Guatemala)

    Taken out of power by the CIA
    Imposed Carlos Castillo Armas as president, he reinstates the United Fruit Company lands and sign a mutual defense and assistance pact with them.

  • Richard Nixon travels to Latin America

  • U.S. drops its opposition to the creation of an Inter-American Development Bank

  • Inter American Development Bank created

  • The Alliance for Progress Campaign

  • The Bay of Pigs Incident

  • U.S.-led assassination of Rafael Trujillo

    Dominican Republic

  • John F. Kennedy President

    "The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the southern half of the globe...the lands of the rising peoples."

  • U.S. Agency for International Development

    Creates "counter-insurgency" tactics in Latin America

  • Soviets flood Cuba with military equipment

  • Missile Crisis

  • Lyndon B. Johnson President

  • OAS asks member nations to sever all ties to Cuba

  • Richard Nixon President

  • Salvador Allende wins Presidency

    Chile

  • The Sandinistas in Nicaragua take control

  • Ronald Reagan President