1. Crisis, Realignment, and
the Dawn of the
Post–Cold War World
1975–1991

2. Postcolonial Crises and Asian
Economic Expansion
1975–1990

3. The Cuban Revolution
 The success of the Cuban Revolution both:
– Energized the revolutionary left throughout Latin
America
– Led the United States to organize its political and
military allies in Latin America in a struggle to
defeat communism

4. Brazil
 In Brazil a coup in 1964 brought in a military
government whose combination of the
following came to be known as the ―Brazilian
Solution‖:
– Dictatorship
– use of death squads to eliminate opposition
– use of tax and tariff policies to encourage
industrialization through import substitution