Important Figures
Father of Mexican Independence.
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
The principal agriculture economy in Cuba.
What is Sugar?
European event that inspired the Haitian Revolution.
What is the French Revolution?
The change that occurs when those in power are replaced by a previously dispossessed class of people.
What is Revolution?
This famous document written in 1823 stated that no European powers should interfere in the western hemisphere.
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
Former slave and leader of the revolution in the French Colony of Haiti.
Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
The yacht that was used to transport Castro, his brother, Che, and 82 of his men from Mexico to Cuba in November 1956 for the purpose of overthrowing the regime of Batista.
What is The Granma?
Haiti's name prior to gaining independence?
What is Saint Domingo?
Starting year of the Haitian Revolution.
1791
Author of The Cosmic Race.
Who is José Vasconcelos?
Archbishop, became an advocate for liberation theology.
Who is Oscar Romero?
The area that was key in the development of the revolution.
What is the Sierra?
The US foreign policy that claimed to justify the occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934 by U.S. Marines.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The date of the attack on Moncada Barracks
July 26th, 1953
The character in Strawberry and Chocolate who represents ideology that goes against post-revolutionary Cuba?
Who is Diego?
These two men helped to liberate Peru and other South American countries from Spain.
Who are Simón Bolívar and Jose de San Martín?
Failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 - launched by the CIA.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Percentage of Haiti made up by slaves.
What is 90%?
The domination of a larger and more powerful country over a smaller and weaker one, typically through economic, diplomatic, or military means.
What is imperialism?
A specific example of cultural nationalism after the Mexican Revolution.
Diego Rivera murals, Frida Kahlo, Vasconcelos...
Ruled through an elaborate system of patronage and "pan o palo", created massive technological innovation financed by foreign capital.
Who is Porfirio Díaz?
The concluding sentence and subsequent title of a four-hour speech made by Fidel Castro on 16 October 1953.
What is "History will absolve me"?
The effects of the Haitian Revolution on plantation slavery in Latin America.
What inspired slave insurrections, intensified brutality and stricter laws in fear of "another Haiti"? Simultaneous expansion and contraction of the slave-plantation complex?
The group that was at the top level of colonial social classes, held all important military and government jobs.
What were the peninsulares?
The four key elements of neoliberalism.
What is free trade, privatization, deregulation, and reduction in government spending?