HIST 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: National Security, Sam Zemurray, United Fruit Company
Document Summary
The cold war and the national security state: economic imperialism and domestic reform. Intervention in guatemala: the americans: resistance and failure. Japanese defendants in tokyo trials argued they were trying to stop. Us objectives for national security (1950), world is divided into two camps, Ussr committed to world hegemony, us has to stop them. Mao wins, convinces us soviets are bent on world domination. By 1954, average american believes communists are evil. Cia is based on external threats, fbi is internal. Cia gathers intelligence and then provides that intelligence to political leaders. Changed in 50s when they started to run operations as well. Cia and government do not get along well. President out rules what the cia says (e. g. , vietnam) The cold war and the national security state. Guatemala has access to both oceans, makes it valuable. Allen dulles and john foster dulles (cia director and us secretary of state) Started from the growing popularity of bananas builder.
