Domnika.Elarabi
Professor Rice
History 3780
November 11, 2020
Module 3
During the Cold War, many countries were transitioning in various circumstances, in which some countries collided with one another, such as Latin-America, Russia, and the United States. These countries managed to almost start a war and Latin-America had to deal with difficult situations that, at times, escalated dramatically between the United State and Russia. Russia was also a key factor in helping Latin-Amerca and also colliding with the United States in trying to have some kind of control amongst Latin-America. The United States and Russia had their problems that were, probably, never solved because of how they dealt with their political views and how they wanted to control Latin-America. During the Cold War 1947 to 1991, the United States dealt with constant threats from Russia, and that both countries were always aware that war can happen at any moment.
NATO also played a huge part in participating in trying to stop any kind of action that can be caused at the start of a war or any kind of activity that can be easily triggered. In 1959, there was a meeting that was done to make some kind of plane for any long term negotiations and that there wouldn’t be any kind of future threats to the people or country; also NATO was also willing to maintain some kind of peace amongst the countries and NATO didn’t want a nuclear war. Furthermore, NATO wasn’t just based in the United States, they were also based in Europe, Latin-America, and several other countries, to help stabilize nuclear threats amongst many other countries who might start a war or to help with negotiations that can be resolved without the threat of war. However, the conflict with the United States and Russia managed to escalate many times and they were ready to have a nuclear war at any moment but there were many times that NATO has stepped in.
NATO wasn’t the only factor that stepped in stopping from having another war. In 1964, there was another tactic it was called the Scare Campaign. It was a campaign that used to scare the people of Chile in order to vote, however, that was the only issue, to vote, it was also seen as a “sophisticated propaganda production that utilized accepted concepts of gender to communicate its message” (Wood, 248). The Scare Campaign tactic was a way to separate gender and that it was also seen as propaganda because it used various sources in order to have people involved in what was going on and wanted to have a one-way thought of how people should think of political views, as well as, how things should be done.
The Scare Campaign was a way to improvise how people could easily be controlled by different means, such as to vote, or political rise to form a new government. Its main focus was on gender and used gender to pursue an imbalance with one another. Women were forced into a variety of things, such as going into militia groups, and they were more controlled by the communists because women needed, somehow, to portray a new role of how a woman should be, instead of the old version of how a woman should be (more of a womanly role).
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/dc.html?doc=6990065-National-Security-Archive-Doc-27-Robert-R-Bowie.
Wood, James A. “Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations”. 5th ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. Chapter X