Impact of US intervention in Latin America & Caribbean

Question 1

What did Kissinger and Nixon fear about Chile?

Answer 1

Could become ‘another Cuba’ with their Marxist leader Allende

Question 2

How did the US intervene in Chile?

Answer 2

-Cut off economic aid
-CIA funded opposition parties
-Supported coup 11th September 1973 to overthrow Allende

Question 3

What were the impacts of US intervention in Chile?

Answer 3

-Ended democracy in Chile
-Damaged US reputation

Question 4

Why did Reagan fear Grenada would become a communist base in the Caribbean and what was his response?

Answer 4

After a military coup led by pro-leftist Coard faction
-Assembled a 7000-strong invasion force

Question 5

What was there no evidence of in Grenada?

Answer 5

Communist intent to establish a pro-Soviet or pro-Cuban regime

Question 6

How did the USSR view the US invasion of Grenada?

Answer 6

Example of US imperialism and ordered Soviet negotiators out of the Geneva arms control talks

Question 7

What was the neutral assessment of US actions in Grenada?

Answer 7

Used the excuse of containment as a reason to shut down an unstable regime

Question 8

Why did the US intervene in Nicaragua?

Answer 8

FSLN overthrew US-backed Somoza dictatorship
“second Cuba”

Question 9

How did the US intervene in Nicaragua?

Answer 9

-Funded and armed the Contras
-Economic warfare (trade embargo)
-CIA covert actions (mining, assassinations, sabotage)

Question 10

What were the impacts of US intervention in Nicaragua?

Answer 10

-Civil War
-Economic collapse
-Destabilisation of reforms