HIS344H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cuban Missile Crisis, Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Roosevelt Corollary
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The western hemisphere and the cuban missile. Historiography, us foreign policy, and the "sea of blood" Warned european states to stay out of latin american affairs. Don"t take loans if you can"t pay them back. Binding states financially and politically to the us. Much like colonialism even though they pretended it wasn"t. Fdr scared of creating new germanies / ww2. Did not like the idea of collective / global security system. La relationship with usa would be watered down, la would have to compete with other states. America did not want to open up latin america to the rest of the world - keep close. La selling resources at 1/4 of a 1/3. No american bank wanted to invest under same as marshall. Cia opposed any attempts at social redress and justification, any challenges to status quo. Hand over used land to peasants --> ameliorate financial circumstances.
