Unit 11: Paper 3 — History of the Americas (HL)
Topic 11.9: The Americas during the Cold War (1945–1991) Questions
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What action did Salvador Allende take as Chile's president after his election in 1970 that alarmed Washington?
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Choose the date on which Fidel Castro's forces took power in Cuba after Fulgencio Batista fled the country.
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What did President Kennedy pledge in the Alliance for Progress (1961)?
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Discuss the view that the Vietnam War was the single most important reason US Cold War strategy in Latin America weakened during Johnson's presidency.
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Discuss the view that the Cuban Revolution of 1959 had a greater impact on the wider Americas than on Cuba itself.
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What happened in Chile on 11 September 1973?
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What was distinctive about President Carter's approach to Latin America compared with Nixon and Reagan?
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Choose what the United States secretly agreed to do as part of the resolution of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, alongside the Soviet removal of missiles from Cuba.
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Which event in 1945 first triggered widespread Canadian domestic anti-Communism during the Cold War?
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Choose the US company whose loss of land under President Jacobo Arbenz's reforms is linked to the CIA-backed coup in Guatemala in 1954.
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Choose the correct description of the Truman Doctrine, announced in 1947.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961 was mainly the result of poor US planning, rather than genuine popular support for Castro in Cuba?
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Evaluate the claim that Johnson's 1965 intervention in the Dominican Republic did more to damage US credibility in the Americas than to protect US security interests.
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Evaluate the claim that the CIA-backed overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 was driven primarily by genuine fear of communism rather than by US economic interests.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the Alliance for Progress (1961) was a genuine attempt to improve the lives of Latin Americans rather than a tool of US self-interest?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 represented a genuine diplomatic success for both the United States and the Soviet Union?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that McCarthyism (1950-1954) reflected a genuine and rational assessment of the communist threat to the United States, rather than an irrational panic?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that US policy towards the Americas between 1968 and 1988 showed no consistent strategy, only contradictory presidents pursuing personal agendas?
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Evaluate the claim that support for, and opposition to, US Cold War policy varied more by government type than by nationality across the Americas between 1965 and 1988.
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Choose the outcome of the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
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