Key Leaders & Countries
Chilean president overthrown by the military in 1973.
Who is Salvador Allende?
A political party that controlled Mexico for many decades.
What is the Party of Institutionalized Revolution? (PRI)
A Cold War confrontation due to discoveries in Latin America which brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A global conflict between two superpowers after WWII.
What is the Cold War?
What is the longest river in the world?
The Nile River
A revolutionary leader that made a socialist government in Cuba after 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
A guerilla movement from the Chiapas which highlighted inequality with indigenous populations.
Who are the Zapatistas?
Countries that have economies dependent on exports to foreign nations.
What are banana republics?
The division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War.
How many bones (typically) are in the human body?
206
A Cuban dictator ruling before the 1959 rebellion and was overthrown due to corruption and repression.
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
A political group in Nicaragua that lost power in the 1990 elections due to a U.S. embargo.
What is the Sandinista Party?
An American company which opposed land reforms in Guatemala, influencing U.S. intervention against the government.
What is the United Fruit Company?
The military alliance of the Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This gas makes up 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
Nitrogen
Argentine revolutionary that led guerilla movements with Castro.
Who is Ernesto “Che” Guevara?
A movement in the Catholic Church that used religious teachings and socialist ideas to appeal and advocate to the poor.
What is liberation theology?
A policy aimed to reduce U.S. intervention to improve relations with Latin America.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
A global movement which encouraged formerly colonized regions to seek independence.
What is decolonization?
Which state saw the detonation of the first atomic bomb?
New Mexico
Guatemalan reformer that wanted "spiritual socialism" and improved workers rights.
Who is Juan José Arévalo?
A revolution in Cuba replacing a dictatorship with a socialist system, aligning with the Soviet Union
What is the Cuban Revolution?
A Cold War program that aimed to promote development and prevent communist revolutionary movements.
What is the Alliance for Progress?
A U.S. strategy aimed to stop the spread of communism to other countries.
What is Containment?
A rare element typically used in nuclear research, named after the God of Thunder.
Thorium