HIST301W
Latin America during the Cold War
History
BC
Subject code
HIST
Course Number
301W
Department(s)
Course Long Title
Latin America during the Cold War
Cross Listed Courses
Description
This course examines Latin American experiences during the cold war from a historical perspective. Students explore how some of the revolutionary transformations, military coups and governments, wide-scale human rights violations, and civil wars shaped the region between the 1950s and the 1980s. Topics covered include Guatemala’s 1954 coup and thirty-year civil conflict, revolution in Cuba, and military dictatorships in Chile and Argentina. Students use and analyze primary sources, including declassified government documents, Truth Commission reports, memoirs, and films.
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