In class/homework: Get Rid Of This Stinker

Date assigned

Thursday, April 20

Assignment

Read "Get Rid of This Stinker" about the 1954 coup in Guatemala.  Answer the following questions.  Turn in by the beginning of class on Monday, April 24.

1) Summarize the methods the United States used to remove Jacobo Arbenz from office.

2) How were the methods the United States used to remove Arbenz from office similar to the methods the United States used to remove Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh from office?  How were they different?

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

4) Why do you think the Guatemalan people remember Arbenz so fondly that 100,000 of them turned out for his funeral 24 years after he died?

Due date

Monday, April 24, beginning of class