Eisenhower and Latin America The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism

Name: Eisenhower and Latin America The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism
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ISBN: 9780807842041

ISBN-10: 0807842044

ISBN-13: 9780807842041

Edition: 1988

Authors: Stephen G. Rabe

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Stephen Rabe's timely book examines President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Latin American policy and assesses the president's actions in light of recent "Eisenhower revisionism." During his first term, Eisenhower paid little attention to Latin America but his objective there was clear: to prevent communism from gaining a foothold. The Eisenhower administration was prepared to cooperate with authoritarian military regimes, but not to fund developmental aid or vigorously promote political democracy. Two events in the second administration convinced Eisenhower that he had underestimated the extent of popular unrestand thus the potential for Communist inroads: the stoning of Vice-President Richard M.…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/11/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



Latin American Policies 1933-1952



Cold-War Policies 1953-1954



Intervention in Guatemala 1953-1954



Free Trade and Investment Policies 1953-1954



Anticommunism and International Capitalism 1955-1958



the Nixon Trip 1958-1959



the Castro-Communist Threat 1959-1960



the New Interventionism 1960



the War Against Trujillo and Castro 1960-1961


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index