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a flashcard set on JFK's foreign policy in Latin America (the Alliance for Progress)
10 years
for how many years was the Alliance for Progress meant to run?
“homes, work and land, health and schools - techo, trabajo y tierra, salud y escuela”
what were the basic needs that JFK said that the Alliance for Progress would focus on?
200
in front of how many Latin American diplomats did JFK announce the Alliance for Progress
added an “appealing title”
what did Eisenhower and his supporters claim Kennedy had done with the Alliance for Progress?
Walt W Rostow
what is the name of the US political theorist and economist who popularised the notion of ‘nation-building’ as a method of preventing the spread of communism?
The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto
what was the name of Walt W Rostow’s book in which he underlines the importance of ‘nation-building’ to preventing the spread of communism?
the “most dangerous area in the world”
what did JFK call Latin America?
“this is the moment to act: to have a hemispheric policy toward Latin America”
what did Argentinian economist Raul Prebisch say about the Alliance for Progress?
Romulo Betancourt
what was the name of the democratically-elected president of Venezuela at the time?
Arturo Frondizi
what was the name of the democratically-elected president of Argentina at the time?
20
how many countries sent delegates to the Punta del Este Conference?
Uruguay
what country is Punta del Este in?
2.5
by what percentage did the Punta del Este Charter aim to increase per capita economic growth by?
$20 billion
how much money did the US promise to supply Latin America with under the Punta del Este Charter?
$1.7 billion
how much monetary aid was provided to Latin America from the US between 1945 and 1950?
the USA
from which country were the ‘Wise Men’ Committee originally all going to be from?
Argentinian President Arturo Frondizi
who demanded that the members of the ‘Wise Men’ Committee should be from a variety of countries so that they would be familiar with “the true needs of our countries”?
9
how many people were on the ‘Wise Men’ Committee once it was approved?
the Peace Corps Act
what was the name of the act enacted by the US Congress which formally established the Peace Corps?
$77 million
how much military aid did JFK give to Latin American countries a year?
Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara
who argued that US military aid and training in Latin America was necessary to allow for moderate leaders to rule in Latin America?
“economic and social development and the success of the Alliance for Progress”
what did the Secretary of Defence, Robert McNamara, say the internal stability caused by US military aid and training would allow for?
Dean Rusk
who was the Secretary of State under JFK?
Chester Bowles
who was the Undersecretary of State under JFK?
Undersecretary of State Chester Bowles
who wrote to JFK protesting about the funding and counter-insurgency programs in Latin America in September 1961?
“we are creating armed forces capable of seizing power'“
what did US Undersecretary of State Chester Bowles warn JFK of in his letter to him in September 1961?
“the principal threat faced in Latin America is Communist subversion and indirect attack”
how does Stephen G Rabe say the JFK administration justified its actions?
“wars of national liberation”
what did Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev declare that the USSR would back in January 1961?
Victor Raul Haya de la Torre
against which democratically elected candidate was the Peruvian military coup in 1962?
$22.3 billion
how much total economic assistance did the US supply to Latin America up to 1968?
9 (including Mexico and Brazil)
how many countries reached the growth target of the Alliance for Progress?
Venezuela
which Latin American country was the first that JFK visited in December 1961?
1.5%
what was the overall growth rate for Latin America in the 1960s (the ‘decade of development’)?
25 million
how many people were unemployed in Latin America by the end of the 1960s?
$10
what was the US’ $20 billion of aid per person?
5
how many times more money left Brazil for the US (through earnings and dividends) than was invested?
3%
what was the population growth in Latin America in the 1960s?
15 million
how many peasant families were living in Latin America at the time?
1 million
how many of the peasant families in Latin America actually benefitted from land reforms?
“yankee imperialism”
what did Latin American nationalists dismiss the Alliance for Progress as?
“Cuba’s Abraham Lincoln”
what did Vice President Nixon praise Cuban autocrat Batista as?
5-10% of Latin Americans owned 70-80% of the land
what percentage of Latin American populations owned what percentage of Latin American land?
a “noble failure”
what did historian Joseph Tulchin claim the Alliance for Progress was at best?
“reality did not match the rhetoric”
what did Theodore Sorenson claim the problem with the Alliance for Progress was?
the “apogee of military power in Latin America”
what does historian Michael Gambone refer to the 1960s as?
