U.S.Foreign Policy in Central America WebQuest and Wiki
For this assignment you will be asked to explore the Los Angeles Valley College Library Database for info on the topic of U.S. economic
U.S. Foreign Policy in Central America WebQuest
Introduction
For this assignment you will be asked to explore the Los Angeles Valley College Library Database for info on the topic of U.S. economic and military intervention in Central America from the 1980s to the present. You will need to search for two articles related to the latter mentioned theme. A list of search topics and themes are listed below.
The resources you are asked to find for this assignment need to come from scholarly journals accessible through the LAVC library. In particular you will be asked to explore the databases Academic Search Complete and/or JSTOR to find he required scholarly articles.
What Are Scholarly Articles?
Please check out this video excerpt from the documentary titled The Internet’s Own Boy, explaining exactly what scholarly articles and journals are.
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Digitized Library
Current and past scholarship is increasingly accessible and digitized meaning you can access library resources with a laptop, desktop, tablet, and smartphone from the convenience of wherever you have an internet connection and one of the above tools.
For this assignment you will need to access the LAVC library database where you can access academic journals. As a student at LAVC you now have access to almost the entire wealth of human academic scholarship through the library website. I would like you to first explore the database titled Academic Search Complete.
How To Navigate The Database Academic Search Complete
I would like you to start with the database titled Academic Search Complete. After you select ASC and follow its link you will be taken to the search engine. While on the ASC search engine you need to scroll down just a little and be sure to click on the box that says “scholarly (peer reviewed)” as well as the box that says “full text.”
Article Research Topics and Themes
I’d like you to use this list as possible search themes for your WebQuest. You can search for terms that are more broad such as “Salvadoran refugees,” and the list below is by no means comprehensive on this topic.
School of the Americas – Located at Fort Benning, Georgia, the U.S. military training academy that provided military training for various military personnel from several countries in CA. The facility is no longer called the School of the Americas.
2009 Coup of Manuel Zelaya president of Honduras and the subsequent U.S. recognition of the coup government installed
El Mozote Massacre – massacre of an entire village in El Salvador by U.S. trained and funded Salvadoran military
Archbishop Romero – Catholic Bishop murdered by terrorists in El Salvador right in the middle of giving mass
Maryknoll Sisters killed – Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline Dorothy Kazel, and lay missionary Jean Donovan
Contras – Terrorist army operating in CA funded by the C.I.A.
Overthrow of Somosa in Nicaragua
Creation of La Mara Salvatrucha gang in the U.S.
Iran-Contra Scandal – The U.S. gov lied about secretly selling and trading weapons to Iran in order to fund covert operations in Nicaragua and elsewhere in CA. It later was exposed that the C.I.A. was funding some of these illegal and/or unpopular Central American policies by further developing cocaine trade routes to the U.S. Good quick read here on the Iran-Contra (Links to an external site.) https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Contra-Affair
Instructions For Initial Reply
Please do and/or answer the following 4 prompts:
1.Search for and Locate two scholarly articles from the above discussed databases
2.After you locate and read the two articles, provide a brief description (one paragraph) of each article here
3.Include a link for each article
4.List one thing the article says about U.S. foreign policy sometime between 1980s to the present
5.Detail one specific effect of U.S. foreign policy upon the people of Central America, specifically Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador
*You cannot use the same articles as a different student. Be sure to check here that no one else has chosen the same article as you. If they have please find a different one. Be creative with your search terms and you will see that there are plenty of articles for everyone
Answer preview For this assignment you will be asked to explore the Los Angeles Valley College Library Database for info on the topic of U.S. economic
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