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1)Compare CIA intervention in Guatemala and Iran to Eisenhower's handling of the Suez Crisis? Did the US act justly and according to its values? What were the motivations in each case? Which one do you think was handled better and why? 2) What was the significance of the Gary Powers incident on page 850?
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__**Answers**__ 1. The CIA Interventions in Guatemala and Iran were secret coups or secret missions to overthrow rulers. Eisenhower's handling of the Suez Crisis was professionally handled, with support of the UN, and successful. The interventions in Guatemala and Iran weren't justified... they were secret coups that the US carried out in their fear that there was a perceived threat of Communism in those countries. The US carried out these coups without any hard evidence, and only with their feelings and opinions. IN these cases, the US let their feelings and predispositions to cloud the truth. In Guatemala's case, the president Arbenz should've been praised for giving out to the poor people uncultivated land that wasn't going to be used anyways.

However, the Suez Crisis was well carried out. It was more or less successful. Although Egypt was fighting against Britain and France, two of the US's allies, the US still told the UK and France to back off. Although the US acted accordingly to its values in each case, the results and the processes to the decisions were totally different. In each case, they wanted to contain Soviet communism. IN each case, the US got what it wanted. But the Suez Crisis was handled better. The US didn't really kill anyone and played a peace-keeping role, and listened to other countries' opinions.

2. The Gary Powers incident was significant because it halted all the talks that destroyed all the trust that the USSR had for the US. After that incident, the US wouldn't suck its pride to continue the already-hampered friendships. The visit from the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Vice President Nixon's visit to the Soviet... useless.