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Unit 6 test review
- 1. “ Wherever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. ” ~ Dwight Eisenhower
- 18. Why should WE reduce our dependence on Middle East oil?
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Discuss Eisenhower’s quote. Do you agree or disagree? Does our study of the 20 th century, especially China, Latin America and Africa support his argument that dictatorships are more efficient at getting this done (whether good or bad), than democracies?
- Brainstorm for examples for each category. Unit 6 started with post-WW2 Latin America and finished with 9/11. Top right: Chilean socialist president Salvador Allende; Middle Right: The last of the Americans in Saigon flee Vietnam in 1975; Bottom right: Genocide in Darfur, Sudan, committed against non-Arab Sudanese people (estimated 400,000 killed)
- Was the United States government justified in giving military and financial aid to Latin American factions that opposed Socialism and Communism, even if it meant supporting ruthless dictators? Is capitalism that important?
- Discussion topic: How were these men able to stay in power for so many years?
- Interestingly, since Cuba was reinstated after its expulsion from the group in 1962 for Cold War reasons, now only Honduras is the only country in North or South America not accepted as a member of the OAS. After a military coup expelled Honduran president Manuel Zelaya in 2009, Honduras’s membership was revoked by the OAS and refused by the new government.
- By comparison, about 14% of Americans are technically at or below the poverty level.
- U. S. supported Diem b/c they wanted to contain Communism; Diem was overthrown and killed in 1963 – unstable leadership in S. Vietnam; South Vietnamese were unable to defeat/control the Vietcong (Communist forces in S. Vietnam funded and supplied by weapons by Ho Chi Minh); LBJ sends troops which further escalates hostilities.
- The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is still very much a Communist state, with no other legal political parties allowed except the Communist Party. It is a dictatorship in that sense, though with a President, a Prime Minister and 26 cabinet members, the Vietnamese government could more correctly be defined as an oligarchy. Like China, Vietnam is keeping the social ideals of Communism while abandoning most of the economic principles in favor of a move towards greater capitalism in order to compete in the global economy. The Vietnamese government after 1975 did little to stop the genocide committed by neighboring Cambodia and Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge military regime, even though many ethnic Vietnamese were targeted in Cambodia. It was more the lack of a U.S. military presence in the region after the loss of the Vietnam War that allowed the mass slaughter to be carried out unchecked.
- Compare the two maps. Which two countries lost the most colonial territory in Africa? How was apartheid in South Africa (ended in 1994) similar to segregation in the American South before the Civil Rights movement? How were Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela (pictured above right) similar in their attempts to reverse racial discrimination? Both tried to use NON-VIOLENT methods to bring attention to the mistreatment and racism faced by their people. Like MLK, Nelson Mandela was arrested, and his long imprisonment led to worldwide condemnation of his government’s policies.
- Why hasn’t peace and democracy been very successful in Africa after the European countries gave up control? Consider how poverty, religious differences, ethnic and racial hostilities, along with disease, corruption and lack of international aid all contributed to the chaos and bloodshed in many parts of Africa.
- The conflict is still very much going on. President Obama recently angered the current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by suggesting that Israel should give back the Palestinian lands seized when Israel won the 1967 war. Most of the world and past presidents like Bush and Clinton argued for the same thing, but Israel won’t budge. A peace settlement does not appear to be close in sight. BOTTOM RIGHT: AN Israeli solider threatens to shoot a Palestinian mother in front of her children if she does not leave the area and return to her Palestinian settlement.
- Secularism is a non-religious form of government that does not allow religious beliefs and laws to be enforced on the population. In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini led a fundamentalist Muslim overthrow of the secular government in Iran. This sent shockwaves throughout the Middle East, where militant radical Muslims wanted a return to the days when the Koran was the law of the land, and the highest government official was also the most powerful religious leader. These “theocracies” in the Middle East, like Iran, have supported the use of violence against Jews, non-Muslims, Muslims that don’t agree with their views, and of course, the United States.