Cold War Dictators

Overthrew goulart in one of the most violent cia backed coups up to that time.

Cold war dictators. The cold war was a period of geopolitical tension between the soviet union and the united states and their respective allies the eastern bloc and the western bloc after world war ii the period is generally considered to span the 1947 truman doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the soviet union the term cold is used because there was no large scale fighting directly between the two. Throughout the cold war you heard the names of all those communist dictators and functionaries in all those communist countries and although you hated everything soviet the labels were. Fulgencio batista the notorious dictator of cuba whose rule led to the rise of fidel castro probably the greatest enemy of the us and cia during the cold war. Dictatorships world war ii and the cold war.

This alarmed his fellow elites who appealed to the cia for help. Pendulum swings in the policy appeared after times of crisis and failure. Francisco franco a conservative dictator of spain known for his forced labor programs and mass executions of socialists and anarchists. Most notably the rise of adolf hitler and world war ii provided a fundamental challenge to the idea that supporting right wing dictators enhanced american interests and brought the debate over support of authoritarian governments to the fore within the franklin d.

Many of these leaders including joseph stalin and mao zedong were brutal. Attempting to stay neutral in the cold war goulart himself a wealthy landowner tried to pacify internal dissent with a broad land reform package. This view however did not remain static.