Assignment 8

In 100 words describe the set of ideas, facts or events that most opened your eyes. That is, describe what you will remember most about what you learned in the course.

Assignment 7

Please post your blog contribution between 5 pm Friday, Feb. 18 and 5 pm Saturday, Feb. 19.

From any of the first 208 pages in HoS, pick an incident that exemplifies racial injustice. In 100 words, briefly describe it and analyze what it is about the incident that is unjust.

Assignment 6

Once you have identified the intervention(s) or military operation assigned to you for the Wiki, do some research. Google the most recent intervention for the country assigned to you if there are more than one, or the military operation. Do some research on the Web. Try to learn how the people of the country into which the US intervened felt about it. What do you think would be their explanation for the intervention or military operation. Then adopt the perspective of a Latin American nationalist and write a 100 word contribution to the blog describing why the US intervened as it did.

The pairings.

[10+21]-Haiti; [5+20]-Operation Condor; [4+15]-Mexico;
[2+17+18]- Nicaragua; [11+13]-Operation Charly; [1+9]- Guatemala;
[14+24]- El Salvador; [7+22]-Iran-Contra; [6+23]-Chile;
[12+19]-Brazil; [8+16]-Uruguay.