HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Young Lords, Stagflation, Urban Decay
10 Sep 2017
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Week 12 lecture 2 - age of fracture. Vietnam, latin america: foreign relations, government secrecy and accountability. Debates over domestic political and culture: government power, rights movements, economic conditions, role of government. Domestic debates, power to tax etc, increasingly concerned for the economy: declining economy and growing deficit. Because of defence spending: the 1970s as age of fracture . If something fractures, implies it was whole before. Increasingly covert operations and make other governments do things that they want: us army school of americas. Train latin american gorilla fighters against elected leaders that promote communist agenda. Intact the truman and nixon doctrine: us army, foreign intelligence assistance op. (project x) Based on vietnam experience: need to work better to us advantage. A guid for conduct of clandestine operations against insurgents and political adversaries. Enhance us and allies in covert operations: cia"s mkultra.
