HISTORY 166D Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-6: Covert Operation, Crisis Management, Dwight D. Eisenhower
24 May 2016
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3 variables decision making: 1st ability for us to exert pressure, perceived influence of pro-soviet forces, and the availability of alternative leaders friendlier to us in. Guatemala us gov pressure was ineffective, communist party growing, military against. Arbenz (led us to start covert action) 187. Blasier examines policies in bolivia and guatemala against backdrop of long-term us interests. Zunes highlights the special security concerns of the early cold war. High-level involvement in these areas due to crisis management rather than sustained interest 188. Instability threatened national security by destabilizing the existing global system and endangering strategic resources (question over cause: regional instability to communist agitation or poverty) One difference between bolivia and guatemala was that bolivia went deeper, changed faster, (weren"t very worried about guatemala- bolivia had economic interests 189. Consensus between researchers like blasier that communist as an inssue in guatemala was exaggerated 190. Before this, us officials attributing guatemala problems to communists.
