CAS HI 280 Lecture Notes - United States
31 Mar 2014
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The alliance for progress: to those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. , belief in the power of foreign aid to help reform countries as one would wish, walt rostow fathers of modernization theory. Moscow and nikita khrushchev: castro regime viewed as a clear and present danger to american national security, brigade 2506 intended to launch an insurgency in cuba i, 1300 1400 men trained by the cia/american military, consideration that castro is unpopular and that as soon as this force lands, a popular revolution would rise up and overthrow castro, plausible deniability , hard to pull off in this case because those involved found it difficult to keep quiet, kennedy administration had to lie and mislead the media.
