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Why Did The Guatemalan Co Up

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The Guatemalan Coup was founded in 1954 and began the Banana Wars. The reason for this was to overthrow Arbenz in Guatemala and end the revolution. The U.S. Government and CIA helped overthrow the Guatemalan Coup in order to protect the funds of the United Fruit Company. During the Cold War, Americans feared communism and the Kremlin and tried their best to stop it from spreading even more than it already had. The U.S. said they were going in for containment, but the real reason they went in was because they were protecting American business. Although the U.S. government claimed to overthrow Guatemala because of its containment of communism, they really went in to protect the UFCO’s money, and to overthrow Arbenz. The CIA went into Guatemala to overthrow Arbenz for multiple reasons, but a big one is that he is not a communist. …show more content…

He then decided to establish a “modern democracy” which would improve the lives of its people through social reforms. Guatemalan people were in much need of fair trade because of the UFCO and how it was viewed. The U.S. wanted to overthrow him, another reason too, which is that Arbenz doesn’t think communists are the problem. In Document 2, Purifoy is trying to convince Arbenz that communists are the problem so that he would worry about that and not about the UFCO and leave it alone. Document 3 says that Arbenz believes that the UFCO is taking money and life away from the Guatemalan people, so he is trying to stop it. Because of that, the U.S. government tried to stop Arbenz so he could not interfere with their plan. Arbemz eventually announced his resignation as President of Guatemala. That leads into the next argument, which is that the CIA went into Guatemala to protect the funds of the

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