HS HST MWS2 S2 03 04 GA

Name: Andres Vejar
Date: 3/23/15
Graded Assignment
A Letter of Support or Opposition
Submit this assignment to your teacher by the due date to receive full credit.
(50 points)
1. The United States intervened in Latin American affairs in order to stop the spread of communism. Many people had opinions about the U.S. intervention in Latin America. As a citizen of the United States, you will write a letter to the editor voicing your opinion about U.S. actions in Chile. In your letter, you should include the following:
A summary of events in Chile
A discussion of arguments for and against U.S. intervention:
What American values or ideals does intervention support?
What American values or ideals does intervention violate?
What might the United States gain by intervening?
What might the United States lose by not intervening?
Your support of or opposition to U.S. actions
Answer:

In my opinion the U.S getting involved with Chile was a good thing. With the help of the U.S CIA they helped the women who marched for the food shortages. The CIA also urged the Chilean military to take action. When they did on September 11, 1973 when they surrounded Allende with tanks while the Chilean air force dropped bombs on the building where Allende was at he refused to surrender and died. The United States will gain popularity from this and it will be in our history books for years to come. If the United States did not intervenient the president of Salvador would have made a communist country and would be like Cuba. If the United States had not got involved there would have been a food shortage and lots of people would have died of starvation mostly children and women. The United States helped turn a democracy into a dictatorship. But it was an anticommunist dictatorship, so for years the united states looked the other way.