This is a timeline from , covering each US president's corresponding foreign policy within Latin America and Cuba. Details include ongoing wars, specific US doctrines, etc which are helpful for IB History HL courses.
Year President US Cuban Leader Doctrine US Events in Cuba War US intervention in LA US relations with Cuba
(note that the leaders
also count for the
preceding year)
1945 Truman Batista Containment End of WW2
1946
1947 Rio Conference
1948 OAS established
1949
1950 Korean War
1951 Truman sent weaponds
and money to groups
oposing Arbenz
1952
1953 Eisenhower New Look,
Rollback, Massive
1954 Retaliation Guatemala Intervention-
Arbenez removed, Armas
installed
1955 Vietnam War
1956
1957
, Year President US Cuban Leader Doctrine US Events in Cuba War US intervention in LA US relations with Cuba
(note that the leaders
also count for the
preceding year)
1958 VP Nixon vists Latin Stoped sales of weapons to
America - increased anti- Batista
Americanism and
promoted non-democratic,
non-communist leaders
Operation Pan America
Created (publicly
endorsed)
1959 CASTRO Castro comes to power +
land reform
1960 Signed trade Act of Bogota adopted by - Covert CIA operation to
agreement with OPA overthrow him
USSR - USA purchases of cuban
sugar stopped - replaced
by USSR and China
- Cuba nationalised us
owned businesses
- US embargo on Cuba
-
1961 Kennedy Flexible Approach Alliance for Progress Castro declared himself
introduced - 15% of Marxist - Leninist
foreign aid budget given
Kennedy visits Venezuela
Peace Corps introduced and Colombia - emphasises
good neighbour policy
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