The Impact of the Cold War around the World
The first three days of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 were the most nail-biting points of the Cold War. What started as a simple missile construction scare had led to many other complications, including the loss of an
Read moreFigure 1: President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, elected in 1964 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, a member of Mexico’s reigning PRI party, began his presidency with high prospects. Mexicans expected someone who would continue their economic boom and put Mexico on an international
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On Sept. 11, 1973, a military-led coup by General Augusto Pinochet seized the Chilean government and established what would be a nearly decade-long junta dictatorship. The siege succeeded a well-established democracy in Chile led by then-President Salvador Allende, a democratically-elected
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On January 3, 1961, then-President Dwight Eisenhower broke diplomatic relations with Cuba, using the United States’ dominance in the global arena to deter Communist influence within the Western Hemisphere. Eisenhower’s actions cultivated more than half a century of hostility between
Read moreThe Bay of Pigs Invasion was an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist Cuba in a three-day invasion of Cuba from April 17 to April 20, 1961. The invasion was fought by Cuban exiles that were influenced and were supposed
Read moreThe battle for Guatemala In June 1954 the Eisenhower Administration supported a Central Intelligence Agency led coup to overthrow the Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. CIA director Allen Dulles viewed Arbenz’s policies towards nationalizing Guatemalan resources as a communist threat
Read moreIn the summer of 1959, the United States and the Soviet Union had mirror exhibitions in each other’s countries that were meant to showcase their technological prowess. The infamous “kitchen debate” took place in the Soviet Union during the American
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