Democracy - Case Study: Latin American Democracies
President of Argentina, 1945-55 and 1973-74. Who am I?
Answer: Juan Peron.
A South African policy of complete legal separation of the races, including the banning of all social contacts between blacks and whites ...
Answer: apartheid.
President of the Soviet Union, 1988-91. Who am I?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev.
Failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 ...
Answer: August Coup.
Chinese communist leader, 1978-89. Who am I?
Answer: Deng Xiaoping.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party - main political party of Mexico ...
Answer: PRI.
A temporary rule by military authorities over a civilian population; usually imposed in times of civil unrest ...
Answer: martial law.
A restructuring of the Soviet economy to permit more local decision-making, begun by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 ...
Answer: Perestroika.
1992-95 armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina ...
Answer: Bosnian War.
A former British crown colony comprising Hong Kong island, Kowloon peninsula, nearby islands, and the adjacent mainland bordering SE China: reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 ...
Answer: Hong Kong.
Chilean physician and politician, known as the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections: 29th President of Chile, 1970-73. Who am I?
Answer: Salvador Allende.
A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of individual states ...
Answer: federal system.
Barrier that once enclosed West Berlin ...
Answer: Berlin Wall
An economic program implemented in Russia by Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, involving an abrupt shift from a command economy to a free-market economy ...
Answer: shock therapy.
A huge public space in Beijing, China - in 1989, the site of a student uprising in support of democratic reforms ...
Answer: Tiananmen Square.
Argentine political figure: First Lady of Argentina, 1946-52. Who am I?
Answer: Eva Peron ("Evita").
A native of Cape Colony or the neighboring regions of Africa born of white parents, esp. Dutch or Huguenot; a descendant of European settlers in southern Africa ...
Answer: Afrikaner.
Leader of East Germany from 1971-89. Who am I?
Answer: Erich Honecker.
A policy of murder and other acts of brutality by which Serbs hoped to eliminate Bosnia's Muslim population after the breakup of Yugoslavia ...
Answer: ethnic cleansing.
Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Communist Party, 1989-2002, president of China, 1993-2003. Who am I?
Answer: Jiang Zemin.
Dictator of Chile, 1973-90, and Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, 1973-98. Who am I?
Answer: Augusto Pinochet.
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist: 1st President of South Africa, 1994-99. Who am I?
Answer: Nelson Mandela.
A Soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information, introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev ...
Answer: glasnost.
A decline in the value of money, accompanied by a rise in the prices of goods and services ...
Answer: inflation.
A set of goals adopted by the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in the late-20th century, involving progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology ...
Answer: Four Modernizations.