Economic
What was import substitution industrialization?
The economic policy after WWll that was made to reduce reliance on imported goods
What country protested the disappearance of their children during a military dictatorship?
Argentina
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
A U.S foreign policy that the Western Hemisphere was not to be colonized by Europe, warning them to stay out of the Americas.
What was the cause of the Cuban Revolution?
The Moncada Barracks were attacked in 1953 by Fidel Castro and the rebels.
What was the Literacy Campaign?
An eight month long effort to abolish illiteracy rates in Cuba after the revolution in 1961.
What was the Latin America debt crisis?
A crisis that hit nations such as Mexico and Brazil and they relied on foreign loans.
What is the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador?
An Indigenous led movement in Ecuador that advocated against oil drilling on ancestral lands in the Amazon.
What is the movement for socialism? (MAS)
A political alliance in Bolivia that led to Indigenous people and the working class to gaining power under Evo Morales.
Who was Fidel Castro?
He became the face of the Cuban Revolution and its leader.
What was the Zapatista uprising?
It was a 12 day armed conflict in Chiapas, Mexico, where the Zapatista Army of National Liberation revolted against the government to demand land, housing, healthcare, etc.
This South American country had monthly inflammation rates that passed 100% during the 1980s and 90s, and led to the creation of the “Real Plan”
Brazil
Who is Evo Morales?
A Bolivian leader that was the first Indigenous president of the country, and advocated for Indigenous rights.
What is Chavismo?
An ideology promoted by Hugo Chavez that emphasized social equality.
What sector did the revolutionary government nationalize after taking power?
The sugar industry.
What was the Shining Path?
A Peruvian Maoist guerrilla revolutionary organization that wanted to overthrow the government to establish a New Democracy.
This country experienced a currency crisis and riots after they had $100 billion in sovereign debt.
Argentina
What is liberation theology?
A form of Catholicism that emphasized social justice and the poor, during the 1960s and 70s.
Who is Jorge Rafael Videla?
The military dictator that ruled Argentina during the Dirty War.
Who did Cuba ally with after the revolution, in 1960?
The Soviet Union.
What is Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia?
A peace agreement signed by a leftist guerrilla group and the government in 2016 after years of conflict.
What is Mercosur?
(The Southern Common Market) A South American trade bloc made in 1991 and includes Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
What was the Dirty War?
A period of military dictatorship in Argentina, known as the Junta, where they violently repressed political opponents.
What political ideology did the Sandinista National Liberation Front align with?
Marxism-Leninism
What political system did Cuba establish after the revolution?
A one-party state.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
In 1962, the U.S discovered Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba, and the world came close to a nuclear war because of the tension.