HISTORY 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Iranian Revolution, Good Neighbor Policy, Authoritarianism

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Week 10: international crisis of 1950s and 1960s. Beria sought to open doors to the west, others against. Nikita khrushchev emerged victorious, exiled and executed others. Khrushchev saw the mass killings of stalin as too violent and extreme. Very ideologue and wanted to spread communism around the world. Uprisings (berlin, poland, hungary) a) b) c) d) All tried to gain independence, protesting the warsaw pact. East berlin because of people fleeing, so wall sought to keep them in. Anglo-iranian oil company took advantage of resources, shah b) c) Anglo-iranian oil company took advantage of resources, shah pro-western modernization. United fruit company (ufco) and dulles brothers in. Compensated the us, but the us thought not enough. Us backed castillo armas to try to topple arbenz, overthrew him. Armas gave us land back, very violent b) c) Unsuccessful, still very unpopular with the native people d) Us won against spain, took philippines and cuba.

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