US and Third World Intervention I.Post WWII Decolonization II.Entrance into Middle East III.Covert Activities IV.Entrance into Vietnam I. Post WWII Decolonization Independence and National Self-Determination Non-Alignment Fear of Revolution II. Entrance into Middle East European Post War Weakness Power Vacuum and US Investment Pan-Arabic Movement Gamal Abdul Nasser III. Covert Activities Our Back Yard Defending US Corporate Two Case Studies Guatemala Cuba Cubas Rock-Star Revolution Selling the Revolution in the US Fidel in New York Guerrillas at the Lincoln Memorial Movement to Communism Bay of Pigs Trial Brezhnev an Fidel (1974) IV. Entrance into Vietnam French Indochina and the Truman doctrine French War: Ho Chi Minh and Nationalism