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181: Socialism: ... military methods (as in Eastern Europe), economic pressures, and military and economic aid, as well as subversion and propaganda. Indigenous Marxist movements also succeeded in gaining and maintaining power in Cuba (1959) and Nicaragua (1979). During most of the 20th century, Marxist socialism meant the dictatorial rule of the Communist party, intensive industrialization, central state direction of the economy, and the ... socialist system since its independence. In the Third World, however, socialism has often been simply an ideology of anticolonialism and modernization. Overtly Marxist movements, aided by the USSR, China, or Cuba, nevertheless seized power in such African countries as Angola, Ethiopia, and Mozambique. South Africa's AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) was also strongly influenced by Marxist ideas. THE NEW LEFT In ...

182: Theodore Roosevelt: ... William McKinley named Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In this office, Roosevelt worked behind the scenes for war against Spain, which was struggling to suppress an independence movement in Cuba. He was animated both by strategic considerations and by the conviction that “superior” nations had the rights and duty to dominate “inferior” ones in the interest in civilizations. In his ... championed conservation through polices of “rational use” to provide resources for future by reclaiming arid lands, waterways, or waterpower sites. Roosevelt was most element in foreign relations. He helped shepherd Cuba to form self-government with the United States as a protectorate under the Platt Amendment. He was responsible for the establishment of an American Canal Zone in Panama. He sent ...

183: The Age of Exploration: Europe: ... the voyage would take two months, others said four months, but he left with enough food and supplies for only two months. He landed in the West Indes (Bahamas, Haiti, Cuba) when the two months of supplies ran out. Their voyage began on August 3, 1492, from Palos, Spain and ended on October 12 when land was sighted at the Americas ... Philippine Natives and four of his ships were destroyed. Only one ship made it back to Spain, making it the first voyage around the World in 1522. Eventually, Columbus claimed Cuba and Hispanola, which is now more commonly known as Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The Spanish Government never harmed the natives. In fact, they supported them on the newly claimed ...

184: October Crisis/War Measures Act: ... a contender for the leadership party the previous spring. (Des, 186) Their demands also included the release of, “political prisoners” and an aircraft to take the kidnappers to Algeria or Cuba. (Des, 186) The demands of the F.L.Q. were high, and they used terrorism. This was not only the wrong way of getting demands met, but is not tolerated ... Pierre Laporte. (Des, 187) James Cross was freed on December 3 1970. Police located and surrounded the suburban Montreal duplex where he was being held. His abductors were flown to Cuba, in exchange for his release. (Des, 187) Only a tiny amount of the F.L.Q. actually got away, others were charged, and others still remain in Quebec. (Des, 187 ...

185: Terrorism As An International: ... reports on the failed Bay of Pigs operation in 1961. Kennedy was held responsible for the failure of 1,400 CIA trained troops to overtake Fidel Castro’s reign in Cuba. Many historians have labeled this as the “Perfect Failure”. This debacle could have possibly been avoided if top level CIA officials warned President Kennedy that this could no longer be ... overthrow Castro. This prompted the Cuban dictator to accept Russia’s offer of nuclear weapons for protection. Further results were the trade embargo that America established, the two planes which Cuba shot down when flying into its airspace, and finally the Cuban Missile Crisis, which Kennedy is heralded for stopping early and peacefully . However, that ordeal could have been avoided much ...

186: Mexico: ... traces of the Maya in Yucatán. A year later Juan de Grijalva headed an expedition that explored the eastern coast of Mexico and brought back to the Spanish colony in Cuba the first reports of the rich Aztec Empire. These reports prompted Diego Velázquez, governor of Cuba, to dispatch a large force in 1519, under the command of Hernán Cortés. For the history of the conquest of the Aztec and of Mexico by the Spanish, see Cortes ...

187: Was Khruschev's Foreign Policy Successful?: ... with the United States improved enough to allow Khrshchev to visit the bastion capitalism in 1959. A more lasting development occurred in 1959 when Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba to align the nation with the Soviet Union. In Egypt the Soviets profited from the 1956 Suez Canal. Ties were further strengthened with Egypt, the most populous Arab country when ... The Cuban missile crisis was a disaster for Khruschev as soviet construction sites were spotted by Americans before the missiles could be installed. President Kennedy ordered a naval blockade around Cuba and demanded the missiles be removed. For several days the two nations stood “eyeball to eyeball” and eventually it was the soviets who “blinked” as they had little choice in ...

188: Contain Communism: ... superpower also attempted to gain influence over emerging nations in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. A serious crisis arose in 1962 when the USSR placed missiles in Cuba, their new ally. President John F. Kennedy threatened nuclear retaliation, and the Soviets withdrew the missiles in return for Kennedy's promise not to invade Cuba. Sobered by this crisis, the Soviets were also weakened when the Chinese split from Moscow and the East Europeans grew restless. Nationalism was proving stronger than communism. The United States ...

189: Earth 2 Puzzle: ... go on. At age 31 he wrote Death in the Afternoon, about bullfighting in his beloved Spain. Ernest was a restless man; he traveled all over the United States, Europe, Cuba and Africa. At the age of 37 Ernest met the woman who would be his third wife; Martha Gellhorn, a writer like himself. He went to Spain, he said, to ... women. In 1940 he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and dedicated it to Martha, whom he married at the end of that year. He found himself traveling between Havana, Cuba and Ketchum, Idaho, which he did for the rest of his life. During World War II, Ernest became a secret agent for the United States. He suggested that he use ...

190: The Presidential Contenders In: ... President Polk as minister to Great Britain in 1853. As such, he, along with the American ministers to Spain and France, issued the Ostend Manifesto, which recommended the annexation of Cuba to the United States. This endeared him to southerners, who assumed Cuba would be a slave state. He was one of several northerners supported over the years by southern Democrats for being amenable to slaveholders' interests, a situation originating with Martin van ...

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