Cold War: Latin America and Africa

The creation of the state of Ghana, Nelson Mandela's election as president of South Africa, the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, Nelson Mandela's election as president of South Africa, the creation of the state of Ghana.

Nelson Mandela's election as president of South Africa, the creation of the state of Ghana, the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The creation of the state of Ghana, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Nelson Mandela's election as president of South Africa.

building up the communist party.

supporting pro-communist forces in Angola.

allying Cuba with the Soviet Union.

continuing to allow private property.

fear of being dominated by the United States

immediate threat of an invasion by the Soviet Union.

threat of radical economic and social reform.

collapse of the Alliance for Progress.

El Salvador.

Nicaragua.

Chile.

Cuba.

reinstall leftist guerrillas to power.

repress leftist groups that sought to overthrow the current ruling body.

terrorize the supporters of Juan Peron.

help restore power to the citizens of Argentina.

were financially prosperous but had no political power.

quit trying to find jobs in the cities and returned to a life of farming.

were forced into military service to fight the communists.

owned no land and were desperately poor.

Salvador Allende.

Augusto Pinochet.

Fidel Castro.

Che Guevara.

The Soviet Union removed all of its missiles from Cuba in exchange for an American promise to not invade Cuba.

The Soviet Union removed some of its missiles and Cuba promised that it would hold free elections within the next six months.

Cuba asked the Soviet Union to remove all of its missiles after the United States Navy quarantined the island.

The United States landed soldiers at the Bay of Pigs and destroyed all of the Soviet missiles.

Nelson Mandela.

Kwame Nkrumah.

Desmond Tutu.

Jomo Kenyatta.

a severe economic depression.

foreign invasion.

intertribal and ethnic violence.

British refusal to grant independence.

all people of European ancestry leave East Africa.

blacks be given larger proportions of important government positions.

the British redistribute land amongst the poor people.

the Mao Mao Uprising be crushed and its leaders imprisoned.

It resulted in the slaughter of virtually all of the white settlers.

It established a communist government in Kenya.

It resulted in the death of Jomo Kenyetta.

It was a military failure but a political success.

They occurred in areas that were under the control of the British.

They had to fight long, bloody wars to achieve independence.

They were peaceful but took several decades to achieve their aims.

They took many of their ideas from communism.

allow each race to develop its own culture.

make voting easier.

defend the dictatorship of the African National Congress.

protect the white minority's control over the country.

African National Congress.

Congressional Black Caucus.

Anti-Apartheid League.

United Nations.

South African police that was carried out by radical members of the African National Congress.

women that were ordered by Bantu chiefs who were against women gaining any rights.

an unarmed crowd that was protesting.

the military wind of the African National Congress.

a leader of the African National Congress.

the president of National Front for the Liberation of Angola.

a military commander that led attacks on the government of South Africa.

a student protester who was killed by South African police.

He removed the ban on political groups.

He engaged in negotiations with the African National Congress.

He increased the number of restrictions placed on black South Africans.

He released Nelson Mandela from prison.