EXAM QUESTION PAPER 2

Examine the role of the United States in the Malvinas War

 UNITED STATES at the beginning was evenhanded approach, because the
Government didn’t wanted to take too much influence in that.
 UNITED STATES took bias for Great Britain, and it supported providing the latest
missiles to this side, in order to bolster the Air defenses of the British power.
 The United States made a plan in 1982 to deliver the Malvinas Islands to Argentina
and pay the habitants of the island who decided to leave or convert them into
Argentine citizens.
 The Reagan Government formed a treatment of peace calling on Britain to withdraw
its insistence on self-determination for the islanders. This position made the president
say that Anglo-American friendship put her at that time "in conflict with fundamental
democratic principles.
 Supposedly UNITED STATES was evenhanded to any approach but it wasn´t as true,
because nowadays, it has been revealed some information in which shows that
Washington had some information under it’s power, which he vowed that he never
shared with Britain, otherwise, it’s proved that is was!
 On December of 1988, the former Secretary of the Navy of the United States, John
F. Lehman, made public the political and military aid provided by the Americans to
Great Britain during the Malvinas War.
 Great Britain won the War, but by a high cost, because they never thought that it
would be a big problem to fight with Argentina, the high cost was based on lives and
on material that was lost during the war.
 UNITED STATES’ help was importantly based on Sidewinders missiles.
 At public side UNITED STATES played the role of mediator during the war
 He was president of the United States and even political actor. During his period of
presidence (1981-1989).
 Ronald Reagan promoted a program of conservative revolution that linked well with
the reactionary winds that encouraged the government of Margaret Thatcher in the
United Kingdom and the pontificate of John Paul II in the Catholic Church. It
consisted in a neoliberal economic policy at all costs, accompanied by a military
rearmament and a more aggressive foreign policy, that would allow to relaunch the
crusade against communism in the world.
 The United States does not intend to turn directly into a possible war between
Argentina and the United Kingdom, despite the unequivocal statement that "it will
respond positively to requests for material support for British forces, according to
Alexander Haig.
 It also repeats that Buenos Aires rejected the latest proposals for a peace agreement,
which include the cessation of hostilities, the withdrawal of all military forces from
the area, the cessation of any sanctions against Argentina, the provisional
administration of the islands under a command British-Argentine-North American set
 and the beginning of negotiations for a final solution that respects the views of the
inhabitants of the islands, according to Washington
 The Security Council voted for the withdrawal of Argentine troops and the
continuity of the talks. In diplomatic circles of the UN, with clear numerical
predominance of developing countries, the attitude of the United States was
interpreted as the step towards "a new colonial war".
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