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100
This language is the most common in Latin America.
What is Spanish.
100
The working classes loved Juan Peron because he did this.
What is encouraged the growth of labor unions and increased job benefits?
100
This country often intervened in the struggles and battles in Central America.
What is the US.
100
This country was dominated by the PRI.
What is Mexico.
100
She was the wife of Juan Peron.
Who is Eva Peron?
200
Which type of government did most of the Latin American countries have before they went to democracy in the 1980's?
What is dictatorship (I will also accept communist).
200
This nation suffered years of inflation after an "economic miracle".
What is Brazil.
200
This nation's government was overthrown by the Sandinistas.
What is Nicaragua?
200
He was the leader of Cuba who was overthrown by Fidel Castro.
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
200
Name a communist (or Marxist or just kind of communist) leader from Latin American history.
Answers will vary.
300
These were the reasons that Latin American nations suffered economic difficulties after WWII.
What is over-dependence on foreign nations and a dramatic increase in population?
300
This general overthrew Salvador Allende to become military dictator of Chile in 1973.
Who is Agusto Pinochet?
300
This country was rocked by civil war in the 1970s and 1980s.
What is El Salvador.
300
This dictator declared himself a Marxist in December of 1961.
Who is Fidel Castro?
300
Revolutionary leader Che Guevara was killed while fighting in this nation.
What is Bolivia.
400
Latin American _______ were strongly influenced by international styles after WWII.
What is art and architecture.
400
This country's government has been heavily influenced by drug cartels and cocaine production.
What is Columbia.
400
This nation was formerly ruled by Manuel Noriega.
What is Panama?
400
This nation was placed under a US trade embargo in 1960.
What is Cuba.
400
This significant event occurred on January 3rd, 1959?
What is Cuba's government was overthrown by Fidel Castro.
500
He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982.
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
500
The military conflict in the Falkland Islands involved these two countries.
What are Argentina and Great Britain.
500
He was the leader of Guatemala who seized United Fruit property and was overthrown in 1954.
Who is Jacobo Arbenz?
500
This was discovered in Mexico in the 1970's and led to the founding of PEMEX?
What is oil reserves?
500
The Sandinistas lost their power when this woman was elected in 1990.
Who is Violeta Barrios de Chamorro?