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The United States And The Congo, 1960-1965: Containment, Minerals And Strategic Location, Erik M. Davis
The United States And The Congo, 1960-1965: Containment, Minerals And Strategic Location, Erik M. Davis
Theses and Dissertations--History
The Congo Crisis of the early 1960s served as a satellite conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Scholars have argued about U.S. motivations and interests involved in the Congo Crisis. The major division between scholars is between those who contend the United States acted for national security reasons and those scholars who argue the United States desired to establish a neocolonial regime to protect economic interests pertaining to vast Congolese mineral wealth. The argument of this thesis is that the United States policy in the Congo between 1960 and 1965 focused on installing …