Latin America Terms
Large commercial farms that dominate agriculture.
What is agribusiness?
Nationalist president that increased the government's economic role, boosted wages and backed labor unions.
Who is Juan Perón?
Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.
What is the intifada?
What is Sharpeville.
These two major developments have greatly shaped the modern Middle East, including wars and the founding of new nations.
What is Peace agreements and Arab Spring
A policy encouraging local production instead of relying on imports.
What is import substitution?
Leftist rebels who overthrew the Nicaraguan government in 1979.
Who are the Sandinistas?
Country that led the Iraq War and helped overthrow Saddam Hussein
What is the United States?
Two places where up to one third of adults were infected with HIV.
What is South Africa and Botswana.
Armed civilian groups not part of the official military.
What is a militia?
Native people marginalized by Latin American governments.
Who are indigenous peoples?
Formed in 1948 to promote democracy, economic cooperation, and peace in the Americas
What is the Organization of American States (OAS)?
Alleged reason for invading Iraq in 2003.
What are weapons of mass destruction?
Challenged government inaction by starting the Green Belt Movement
Who is Wanagri Maathai.
Disputed lands captured by Israel in 1967.
What are the occupied territories?
Religious movement advocating for the poor and social justice.
What is liberation theology?
Civil protests that brought attention to Latin American dictatorships.
What are human rights protests?
Iraqi dictator removed by U.S. invasion in 2003.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
A radical Islamist group that began by opposing non-Islamic education by 2015 turned to terrorism.
What is Boko Haram
Widespread protests due to inequality or injustice.
What is civil unrest?
Activist mothers demanding truth about their disappeared children in Argentina.
Who are the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo?
Country that returned to democracy after Pinochet's dictatorship.
What is Chile?
Palestinian Liberation Organization leader.
Who is Yasir Arafat?
Poses a threat to the tourism industries of some countries.
What is possible loss of endangered species.
What year did the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seized control of parts of northern and eastern Iraq.
What is 2014.