In class/homework: We're Going To Smash Him

Date assigned

Monday, April 24

Assignment

Read "We're Going to Smash Him" about the 1973 coup in Chile.  Answer the following questions.  Turn in by the beginning of class on Wednesday, April 26.

1) Summarize the methods the United States used to remove Salvador Allende from office.

2) How were the methods the United States used to remove Allende from office similar to the methods the United States used to remove Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz from office?  How were they different?

3) Why did the United States want to remove Allende from power?

4) Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she considers former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to be an important foreign policy influence on her.  Does this make you more likely to support Clinton or less likely to support Clinton?  Why?

Due date

Wednesday, April 26, beginning of class