Problem
How did the U.S. substitute Spain and the United Kingdom as the regional hegemons? How did U.S. interventions contribute to democratic breakdown and strengthening of dictatorships before and during the Cold War?.
Relevant Terms, Concepts, Historical Figures & Events: Hegemonic power; Manifest Destiny; Monroe Doctrine; Roosevelt Corollary; Good Neighbor Policy; The Cold War; The United Fruit Company; Rafael Trujillo; The Somoza's; Jacobo Árbenz and Guatemala's 1954 coup; Cuban Revolution; The Bay of Pigs; Salvador Allende and Chile's 1973 coup; Contras and civil wars in El Salvador (1979-1992) and Nicaragua (1979-1990); U.S. invasion of Panama (1990). ! Assigned
Readings:
• Halperín Donghi, Tulio. The Contemporary History of Latin America, trans. by John Charles Chasteen (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993), 247-291, 292-337 (Tu).
• Skidmore, Thomas, and Peter H. Smith. Modern Latin America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 396-427.
• Reid, Michael. Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), 81-112.