Cold War Showdown
This conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union shaped Latin America after World War II.
What is the Cold War?
This political party controlled Mexico for most of the 1900s. (Full name)
Who are the Party of Instutionalized Revolution (PRI)?
In many Latin American countries, this group took over the government in the 1960s and 1970s.
What is the military/army?
This country was the most powerful foreign influence in Latin America during the 1900s.
What is the United States of America?
These criminal organizations control drug production and trafficking.
What are drug cartels?
This guy created the socialist government within Cuba.
Who was Fidel Castro?
This rebel group began an uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1994 to demand rights for poor and Indigenous people.
What are the Zapatistas?
This issue made the army eventually give back control to civilians.
What is economic crisis?
This U.S. government section helped organize the 1954 coup in Guatemala.
What is the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)?
What is economic debt left by the military?
This Cold War crisis occurred in 1962 when Soviet nuclear missiles were discovered in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This trade agreement between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico began in 1994.
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
This socialist president of Chile was overthrown by the military in 1973.
Who is Salvador Allende?
This U.S. program launched in 1961 aimed to promote economic development in Latin America.
What is the Alliance for Progress?
This company influenced politics and was involved in the conflict leading to the overthrow of Guatemala’s government.
What is the United Fruit Company?
What are banana republics?
This opposition candidate ended the PRI monopoly in 2000.
Who is Vicente Fox?
This type of military-run dictatorship aimed to impose order and economic stability.
What is a bureaucratic authoritarian regime?
This U.S. president introduced the Good Neighbor Policy in 1937.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This violation, widely used by repressive governments in Latin America, involved extreme physical or psychological abuse of prisoners.
This Argentine revolutionary helped Fidel Castro and later attempted a revolution in Bolivia.
Who is Che Guevara?
This issue between Mexico and the United States became especially contentious by 2008.
What is illegal immigration to the United States?
What violent campaign carried out by Argentina’s military government led to thousands of people “disappearing” during its rule?
What was the "Dirty War"
This major concern shaped U.S. policy toward Latin America after World War II and led to strategies such as supporting anticommunist governments and covertly undermining unfriendly regimes?
What is the containment of communism and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
This major problem was created by the drug trade for the legitimacy of governments in affected countries?
What is political destabilization?