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Directions: Please answer the following questions in complete sentences. Please use the PDF text to help you. Make sure you write A or B AND answer the question!! What happened in Guatemala? Answer the questions below. Write (A) if the answer appears in textbook A; write (B) if the answer appears in textbook B; and write (A + B) if the answer appears in both textbooks. 1. Who was the leader of Guatemala in 1954? Which textbook contains this answer? __A___ The leader of Guatemala in 1954 was Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Both Textbook A and B provide this information, but textbook A is more direct.

2. Why did the United States oppose this leader? Which textbook contains this answer? __A___ The United States opposed Guzman because they were convinced that Guatemala had communist sympathies according to textbook A.

3. What did the U.S. do to overthrow this leader? Which textbook contains this answer? __A/B___ In order to overthrow Guzman, the US trained and armed an army that invaded Guatemala. Both textbooks mention the way in which the CIA prepared Guatemalan opposition to capture the nation

4. What was the result of the U.S.’s actions? Which textbook contains this answer? _A__ Though both textbooks mention that Guzman left office after the US’s actions, only textbook A includes that the army’s leader, Carlos Castillo Armas, was the one who replaced Guzman....