Cuba
México
Central America
Grammar
Vocab
100
This Cuban president, who stepped down in 2018, is the BROTHER of Cuba's most famous revolutionary leader.
Who is Raúl Castro?
100
The year that the Mexican Revolution began.
What is 1910?
100
The country marked with a "1" in this image.
What is El Salvador?
100
This mood is used in dependent clauses of sentences that contain uncertainty.
What is the subjunctive?
100
This is the English equivalent of "la ciudadanía".
What is "citizenship"?
200
This eastern bay in Cuba is considered the sovereign territory of the United States.
What is Guantánamo Bay?
200
The political party that won every Mexican election from the 1920s until the early 2000s.
What is the PRI? / What is the Partido Revolucionari Institutcional? / What is the revolutionary party?
200
This country is the only majority English-speaking country in Central America.
What is Belize?
200
This location, relative to a noun, is where an adjective is placed in order to express a quality inherent to that noun.
What is before the noun?
200
This is the English equivalent of the word "el/la boricua".
What is "Puerto Rican"?
300
This 1961 Invasion of Southwestern Cuba by counter-revolutionaries failed miserably. The group of fighters was trained by the CIA, who organized the operation, and all of this was funded and supported by the US.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
300
The author of Borderlands / La Frontera, a semi-autobiographical book that blends genres and speaks on the contemporary US-Mexico border.
Who is Gloria Anzaldúa?
300
This term is used to describe the train that refugees hop on to traverse northwards through Central America and México on their long journey to the US.
What is the Beast / la Bestia?
300
This is either of the ways to form the passive voice in Spanish. An example is fine as well.
What is "ser" + a past participle? OR What is "se" + a verb conjugated the 3rd person?
300
This how to say "the hills" in Spanish.
What is "las colinas"?
400
These TWO United States presidents organized the Bay of Pigs operation. One organized most of it, then left office, and the next president took over and continued it.
Who are Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy?
400
The Mexican Revolutionary leader known as the General of the South, who died a martyr and is known for his slogan of "Land and Liberty", or "Tierra y libertad".
Who is Emiliano Zapata?
400
This country's president, Arbenz, was overthrown by the US. Then, they suffered under the dictatorship of Somoza for years.
What is Nicaragua?
400
This mood and tense is used in Si-Clauses and is the equivalent of "I would bring it..."
What is the conditional? (indicative = optional)
400
This is how to say "highest level; most successful period" in Spanish.
What is "el apogeo"?
500
This Cuban export was their primary agricultural product during the years of the US embargo. They sold it all over the world but especially to the USSR.
What is sugar / sugarcane?
500
The figure who is villainized and used as a scapegoat for the fall of the Aztec Empire within popular Mexican culture.
Who is La Malinche?
500
This US president deported members of the international crime syndicate MS-13, that originated in East LA, to Central America, where the gang took root and spread even further.
Who is Bill Clinton?
500
This mood and tense is used in si-clauses, and is the equivalent of "If I were to go..."
What is the imperfect / past subjunctive?
500
This is how to say "marigold flower" in Spanish.
What is "el cempasúchil"?