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Latin America and the U.S.
Yankee Imperialism
Cold War Politics
Fidel Castro
Potpourri
100
American document that stated no European countries could further colonize Latin America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine of 1823?
100
The amount of money the U.S. paid Panama for the strip of land to build the canal.
What is ten million dollars?
100
One of two names of Russia during its Communist form of government during the Cold War.
What are the Soviet Union and U.S.S.R (United Soviet Socialist Republic)?
100
The year Castro and fellow revolutionist Che Guevera led a coup d etat in Cuba.
What is 1953?
100
The belief that it was the American colonies' God given duty to expand itself to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The country President Roosevelt encouraged rebels to fight for their independence.
What is Colombia?
200
A type of military conflict in which the two nations at war do not directly fight one another.
What is a proxy war?
200
Two of three recognizable features of Fidel Castro .
What are his beard, cigar, and military uniform?
200
The document was the Peace Treaty officially ending the Spanish American War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
300
This document was forced into Cuba's constitution stating the U.S. had the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
What is the Platt Amendment?
300
The year Panama grants the U.S. land to build the canal.
What is 1903?
300
JFK's program to give money to Latin American countries if they supported anti-communist philosophies, and made certain economic reforms.
What is Alliance for Progress?
300
The failed attempt by CIA trained Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro in the early 1960s.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
300
The declassified CIA document proposing the U.S. government commit acts of terror on its citizens in order to gain public support to invade Cuba.
What is Operation Northwoods?
400
One of two countries the U.S. gained as a result of the Spanish American War.
What are Puerto Rico and the Philippines?
400
One of several resources that American investors bought in Latin America during the early 1900s.
What are sugarcane plantations, oil wells, and copper mines?
400
Two of three concerns regarding Latin American/U.S. relations after the Cold War.
What are terrorism, the drug trade, and foreign debt?
400
The major cause of the failure in the Bay of Pigs invasion that would have enable the Cuban exiles to take Havana, Cuba's capital.
What is JFK's decision to recall the air strike promised the exiles?
400
The anti-communist rebel group in Nicaragua supported by the U.S. government during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Who are the Contras?
500
A military unit led by Teddy Roosevelt who stormed San Juan hill during the Spanish American War.
Who were the Rough Riders?
500
The type of government the U.S. would support that favored its interests and investments.
What is ANY?
500
The Soviet Union's leader at the end of Cold War.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
The act that crippled Cuba's economy and ultimately the end of its power in the region.
What is the trade embargo?
500
Another term for a group that supports Communism.
What is "leftist"?