HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: One-Man Operation, Cuban Revolution, 1997 Asian Financial Crisis

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Oligarchic democracy (reliance on us market export prosperous elite) 1930"s world crisis: to small for isi, produce food us market (reliance us maintained) After world war ii: no middle class, tension: marxist revolutionary guerilla movements, reaction: anti-communist dictatorships (backed up by u. s, foran theorizing the cuban revolution in latin americcan perspective. Dependent development (limits set by insertion into capitalist world economy: economic reliance u. s. , sugar: small elite, income inequality. Effective and powerful political cultures of resistance (ideology: nationalism castro, july. Economic downturn + revolutionary crisis (castro"s guerilla war: 1958 disrupts sugar harvest) World-systemic opening (world war, depression; america does not want battista, does not want democracy, does not want castro who did not start as a communist and does not interfere) Still problems of dependency: after 1960: soviet union, after 1990"s: pink tide quick recovery, china & latin american markets, u. s. embargo, global capitalism. Task 11 the global superpower and other states.