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Part One: The Deadliest School in History

Behind the Bastards

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World War Two and the United States

World War two kind of distracts the United States from affairs and you know it's its own hemisphere for a while we're not focusing so much on Latin America during that whole war thing. World War two also saw the sudden pull out of European military advisors from a lot of South American states because they hadn't been like European colonialism never in the modern era got was even vaguely on the same levels as what happened in Africa due to the Monroe Doctrine. Europe was the gold standard prior to World War two but by the end of the Second World War Europe was kind of broken as a military power even the states that had won were in ruins. The governments of Latin America started have needing to look

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