Regions
This region is the furthest north in Latin America.
What is Mexico?
The Sierra Madre Mountains are found in this country.
What is Mexico?
Fidel Castro was the president/dictator
What is Cuba?
Brazil's official language (because it was colonized by Brazil hundreds of years ago)
What is Portuguese?
They placed an embargo on Cuba cutting off any sugar exports to American markets.
How did the U.S. respond after hearing about Castro's takeover of Cuba?
This region connects Mexico and South America.
What is Central America?
The desert near Chile in South America.
What is the Atacama Desert?
The movement or exchange of culture, ideas, people, textiles, diseases.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Cuban Missile Crisis - Cuba allowed the Soviet Union to build a missile launching complex on the island.
How did Cuba play a role in the high tension between Soviet Union and U.S.?
This region is a series of Islands.
What is the Caribbean?
This area is disappearing because of deforestation.
What is the Amazon Rain Forest?
Expansion of European influence into the New World, need for cheap labor for plantation work, to replace native Americans who died.
What is reason for the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Lack of high-paying, high skilled employment opportunities, no investment and access to education.
What is poverty in Latin America?
This region is the furthest south in Latin America.
What is South America?
The Amazon River begins in this continent.
What is South America?
The 3 MAIN cultural groups in Latin America
What is Native Americans, African and Europeans?
The need for farmland and living space to support Brazil's expansion.
What is deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest?
The main religion of most Latin Americans and the Caribbean.
What is Roman Catholicism?
The four regions of Latin America.
What is Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America?
This mountain range runs along South America's western coast.
What is the Andes?
The Soviet Union agreed to purchase their sugarcane as well as provide weapons to Castro since U.S placed embargo on them.
What is the affect of the Soviet Union on Cuba after Castro?
These countries are used like a corridor through which drugs like cocaine are transported.
What is Guatemala and Mexico?
Cuba is the only country in the Western Hemisphere that has this kind of government system.
What is communism?