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1. www.express.co.uk › news › worldWorld War 3 map shows the safest and most dangerous countries

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   Jan 19, 2024 · Growing insecurity and superpower rivalries are fuelling concerns about the outbreak of a global conflict. Global tensions have been rising as new crises emerge in the Middle East, Asia, and ...

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2. qcostarica.com › 10-safest-countries-if-ww3-breaks10 Safest Countries If WW3 Breaks Out: Costa Rica Is Number 9

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   Dec 1, 2015 · Is there any chance there will be a World War? There are three flash points that could make it possible: Russia vs. NATO: China vs. Japan, the U.S. and their allies; the Middle East. See the...

3. www.cambridge.org › core › booksCosta Rica (Chapter 10) - Latin America between the Second ...

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   May 4, 2010 · Summary. The origins of the Civil War of March-April 1948 and the subsequent repression of the Communists and the more militant sections of the labor movement in Costa Rica can be traced to the 1930s. The Depression accelerated the process of the formation of labor unions, notably those of the shoemakers, who were by then working in relatively ...

4. www.tuftsdaily.com › archives › 2003/12/01A people without arms: 55 years of Costa Rican demilitarization

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   Dec 1, 2003 · At that time, Costa Rica was coming out of a short civil war in which Figueres led a force that fought the government's forces after it refused to recognize the election of the rival candidate. Figueres then installed a civilian junta to bring stability to the country, draft a new Constitution and pave the way toward a peaceful transition of power.

5. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsCosta Rica in 1948: Cold War or Local War? | The Americas ...

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   The fifty years of Cold War anti-Communism entitles one to be skeptical of U.S. non-intervention in a Central American conflict involving Communism. Costa Ricans, aware of a long tradition of U.S. intervention in the region, also assumed that the U.S. would intervene.

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6. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsPeaceful Costa Rica, The First Battleground: The United ...

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   Extract. In February 1948 a spirited presidential race sparked a political powderkeg in normally tranquil Costa Rica. The opposition candidate, Otilio Ulate, unexpectedly defeated former president Rafael Angel Calderón.

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   Was America involved in a 1948 Costa Rican civil war?

   • Although the U.S. intervention in Guatemala to overthrow the government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 has generally been seen as the first case of Cold War covert anti-Communist intervention in Latin America, several scholars have raised questions about U.S. involvement in a 1948 Costa Rican civil war in which Communism played a critical role.

   Costa Rica in 1948: Cold War or Local War? - Cambridge Core

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   Did Somoza want US intervention in Costa Rica?

   • Somoza clearly hoped for U.S. intervention to end the Figueres threat in Costa Rica, N.A.818.00/3-1848, Bernbaum to Secretary of State, 18 March 1948. N.A.818.00/3-2348 Marshall to U.S. Embassy Managua, 24 March 1948; N.A.818.00/4-1148, Bernbaum to Secretary of State, 11 April 1948.

   Costa Rica in 1948: Cold War or Local War? - Cambridge Core

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   Did the US invade Costa Rica?

   • The U.S. “actively interfered,” and achieved “comparable results in Costa Rica as in Guatemala: the removal of a perceived Communist threat.” Other authors have argued, even, that the U.S. had prepared an invasion force in the Panama Canal Zone to pacify the country.

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   Did Americans expect US intervention in Costa Rica?

   • Costa Ricans, aware of a long tradition of U.S. intervention in the region, also assumed that the U.S. would intervene. Most, if not all, were expecting intervention and one key government figure described U.S. pressure as like “the air, which is felt, even if it cannot be seen.” Yet, historians must do more than just “feel” intervention.

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   How did Somoza inform the US Embassy of Costa Rica?

   • Somoza had informed the U.S. Chargé that Costa Rica had authorized intervention, stating that he would notify the Embassy before taking any action; N.A.818.00/4-1648, Bernbaum to Secretary of State, 16 April 1948. Davis diary 18 April 1948; N.A.818.00/4-2448, Bernbaum to Secretary of State, 24 April 1948.

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   Why did Figueres repress Costa Rica?

   • In an interview with Acuña, , El 48, pp. 274–76 Google Scholar; Núñez stated that the repression was the result of Costa Rican internal pressures. Figueres’ own moderately “leftist” domestic social goals and foreign policy goals increased his need to appease the U.S. as well as domestic actors.

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8. www.utpjournals.press › doi › absCosta Rica and the Cold War, 1948–1990 | Canadian Journal of ...

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   Sep 1, 2015 · This article examines the major Cold War events that affected Costa Rica from 1948, the year when Costa Rica’s Second Republic was born, until 1990, when Nicaragua’s Sandinista government lost a presidential election and its East German ally disappeared.