Ch 32 1975 - 1991. Superpowers sponsored wars and revolutions If one rival power assisted a nation with arms and financial aid, then the other assisted.

Ch 321975 - 1991

Superpowers sponsored wars and

revolutions•If one rival power assisted a nation with arms and financial aid, then the other assisted the insurgents with the same.

•What were proxy wars?

•Where did these conflicts take place? Identify region for each.

Cuba, Brazil, Iran, Afghanistan, Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua, Falkland Islands

Conflicts where rival super powers financed and armed

competing sides

Latin America 1970’s•What event may have

sparked leftist revolutions throughout Latin America in the 1970’s?

•How will the U.S. react to socialist revolutions in Latin America in the 1970’s?

The success of the Cuban communist government and the failure of the U.S. to

overthrow it.

Support right-wing, conservative leaders as allies.

Areas of conflict and

U.S. involvement

Grenada

“The Brazilian Solution”•1964 - democratically elected government

was overthrown by a military coup

•New government was a dictatorship:

• ruled without a constitution

• outlawed all other political parties

• exiled former presidents and opposition leaders

• death squads tortured and executed citizens - violent oppression

•promoted industrialization through import substitution, or government promotion of industrialization

The “Brazilian Solution”• Refers to the rise of dictatorships in Latin America, first in

Brazil in the 1960‘s and then in the1970‘s and 1980‘s elsewhere in Latin America. Democratically elected governments were overthrown by a military coup and a dictatorship was established in order to prevent communism. The new conservative governments used a combination of dictatorship, violent repression and government promotion of industrialization.

•What was it a solution to?

• What prompted this trend?

the spread of communism in the region

The spread of communism to Cuba and the failure of the U.S. to bring it down in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. After this event, the U.S. turned to building allies in other Latin America to prevent the spread of communism from happening elsewhere in the region.

Chile 1970’s and 1980’s• 1970 - reforms of new president, Salvador

Allende:

• led socialist reforms

• redistribute wealth from _______ and __________ to the ______

• nationalized Chile’s heavy industry and mines, including copper mines owned by Americans

• Inflation, mass consumer protests and declining foreign trade leads to....

• 1973 - military coup by General Augusto Pinochet, supported by the U.S. - right-wing, conservative

• President Allende and others die in uprising, others tortured, imprisoned without trial

• Allende’s social reforms cancelled, reduce state involvement in the economy and encourages foreign investment

• Pinochet will rule Chile from 1973 - 1990

elitespoor

middle class

Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979•Dictator Anastasio

Somoza is overthrown by Sandinista rebels - leftists - supported by Cuba, wanted to :

• place Nicaragua under a command economy like Cuba’s and Soviet Union’s

• nationalize private properties owned by Nicaraguan elites and U.S. Cities

• Results: Sandinistas called for free elections in 1990 and didn’t win = new leader Violeta Chamorro

Nicaraguan Revolution of

1979Sandinistas vs. Contras

funded by:Cuba U.S.

Castro Reagan

El Salvador

Farabundo Marti (National Liberal Front) FMLN rebels vs. El Salvadoran army

Farabundo Martin of FMLN = Leftist rebelsWhat side will the U.S. support?

Salvadorian Army

Back to Brazil, Argentina and Chile

1983 - 1990 What’s the trend in Latin America during this era?

1982Argentina

nationalismFalkland Island

War against Britain.

Who wins?Britain

A return to democratic governments in Latin America.During this period military rule was replaced by civilian rule.

NeoliberalismWhat is it?

The term refers to the economic reforms of the 1990’s introduced in Latin America and other regions during this time which reduced the economic role of the state. Reforms included a return to free-market capitalism, reduced government protection of industries and also reduced welfare programs and the number of government jobs. Nationalized industries like airlines and public utilities were sold to foreign corporations. In other words, they were privatized.Why did this become an economic trend in the

1990’sThe collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the Soviet Union in 1991 made socialism less appealing.

Iranian Revolution of 1979: Region?

Leader BEFORE

revolution:shah of IranMuhammad Rez Pahlavi, a monarchy

U.S. supported him and sent

weapons to his Iranian armyIranian resented

the autocracy of his family which had ruled Iran

since the 19020’s.

AFTER revolution:Ayatollah Khomeini.Shi’ite cleric.No more monarchy - instead. . . Islamic Republic of Iran

•the new government imposed religious control of public behavior•monarchists and communists were barred from running in elections•Western culture and clothing were prohibited•women were expected to wear Islamic veil in public•public morals were policed by the government

Changes in Iran due to the Revolution of

1979?

Could this be called a nationalist revolution? Why?

Afghanistan 1979-

Region?•Soviet Union sends in its army to help

Afghanistan communist government fight insurgents (rebels)

•The U.S., Saudi Arabia and Pakistan aid and train the Afghan rebels

•Sounds like part of what bigger war?

•Soviet Union pulls out its troops in 1989

•decentralized rule in Afghanistan - tribal wars

Cold War

Japan - Region?Reasons for Japan’s economic success in the

1970’s and 1980’s?•government assisted the industries with protectionist laws that set tariffs and regulated imports to diminish competition from foreign industries•zaibatsu were broken up into small conglomerates known as keiretsu - Toyota Asian

Tigers?Pacific Rim States:South Korea

TaiwanHong KongSingapore

Experienced rapid economic growth in the 1970’s that allowed all 4 to develop modern industrial and commercial economies.

Very important:GDP = gross

domestic product - a way of measuring

the economic growth of a country

Very important:

What explains the economic

growth of these new economies

in Asia?Book gives you

6 reasons

China - 1970 - 1980‘s Region?•1976 Mao Zedong dies

•Den Xiaoping - 1978 - introduces economic reforms

Would Mao have agreed with these reforms? Why?

Would you call this change or continuity?

In what category of SPRITE?

• relaxed state control of the economy

• allows firms to compete in a capitalist economy

• allows foreign investments in China - at first restricted to special economic zones now all over - McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, today Starbucks

• did not privatized land but contracted it out and farmers able to consume or sell what they produced - results: agricultural output tripled

China - same era - Continuity?

Tiananmen Square 1989 ?In Beijing. . .western-educated students and professors demanded democratic reforms and an end to corruption and inflation.Government responded by sending in tanks. Many protestors were killed or jailed.

What remained the same?China remained a single-party dictatorship

with little to no freedoms of speech, assembly or press.

Best evidence to support this. . . ?

Grand Ending to the chapter. . .

•End of the Cold War

•How did the Cold War end?

•1985

•1989

•1991

Mikhail Gorbachev

•New Soviet leader in 1985

•Introduces political and economic reforms

•Why?

•Perestroika

•Glasnost

restructuring of the Soviet economy and government

openness - freedom to openly criticize the government which was controlled by the

Communist Party

Russia’s economy is not growing... as compared to. . . at this time?

Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe 1989

• Poland - The Solidarity Party led by Lech Walesa

• Czechoslovakia - Vaclav Havel - “Velvet Revolution” most peaceful

• Romania - Nicholae Ceausescu - most violent

• Most symbolic moment - Fall of the Berlin Wall

• New independent countries: Baltic States?

• What does Gorbachev do in response to these uprisings calling for democratic reforms?

• How did his actions differ from previous Soviet leaders in 1956 and 1968?

Nothing. Allows each demonstrators in each country to overthrow communist rule.

In 1956 and 1968, Soviet leaders had sent in Soviet tanks and soldiers to stop the demonstrators and communist dictatorships continued in Eastern

Europe.

Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia

Fall of Communism and fall of the Soviet Union - 1991

• Gorbachev’s reforms angered some Russians - what groups?

• Boris Yeltsin becomes populous leader

• Gorbachev’s opponents stage a coup to overthrow him - Yeltsin stops it

• Gorbachev resigns December 25, 1991

• Soviet Union replaced by Commonwealth of Independent States - Russian Federation

• New leader - Boris Yeltsin - later: Vladimir Putin

•communist hardliners who didn’t like Gorbachev’s reforms•Russian reformers who felt the reforms had not gone far enough•Nationalist groups who wanted independence from Soviet rule, includes Muslims in the south.

Cold War is over.

Important stuff still left:

•Migration patterns

•First Persian Gulf War 1990-1991

•End of apartheid in South Africa

•Break up of Yugoslavia and civil war leading to ethnic cleansing by Serbian forces - Milosevic

•2nd Gulf War - Saddam Hussein

•International organizations WTO and NGO’s