Econ/Poc system

Question 1

Investors from what country owned the new railroads, ranches, plantations, and mines?

Answer 1

Britain

Question 2

Did Central Governments allow foreign capital into their economies in hopes to improve them?

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

What type of loans did foreign banks give?

Answer 3

Public improvement loans and to help with their armies

Question 4

What year did the Monroe Doctrine get enacted

Answer 4

1823

Question 5

Did the US intervene in the Falkland Island

Answer 5

No

Question 6

did the US intervene in the British and Venezuelan land dispute?

Answer 6

yes

Question 7

How did the US intervene in Venezuela and Britain

Answer 7

they pressured Britain to focus on South Africa and other things that were more important.

Question 8

What was Drago Doctrine

Answer 8

Foreign Minister of Argentina that refused the US and Europe to use force to collect debt

Question 9

What happened in 1938 In Mexico?

Answer 9

Oil company wage dispute, Cardenas nationalized the oil industry, they got economic imdependence

Question 10

Who took power in 1936 in Nicaragua?

Answer 10

Anastasio Somoza

Question 11

Who was Nicaragua’s nationalist leader before 1936?

Answer 11

Sandino

Question 12

In what year did the Catholic Church begin to fight for social justice?

Answer 12

1968

Question 13

What are the three parts or liberation theology

Answer 13

human rights, welfare, and social justice

Question 14

By 1979, what were most Nicaraguans against?

Answer 14

Somoza

Question 15

Who took control of Nicaragua in 1979?

Answer 15

the Sandinistas

Question 16

Who was Daniel Ortega?

Answer 16

Nicaraguan Sandinistas leader who the USSR supported

Question 17

Who opposed the Sandinistas?

Answer 17

Contras-rebel group

Question 18

Who supported the Contras

Answer 18

the US

Question 19

What happened in El Salvador in the 1930’s movement

Answer 19

10k peasants were killed

Question 20

What ruled El Salvador from 1940-1970?

Answer 20

wealthy or military dictatorships

Question 20

who was Jose Napoleon Duarte

Answer 20

led civilian reform movements

Question 21

Farabundo Marti Liberation Front

Answer 21

leftist guerrilla group, kidnapped people, assassinations, attacks on government buildings

Question 22

What year was Oscar Romero killed in

Answer 22

1980

Question 23

who won in El Salvador in 1980

Answer 23

the ARENA party

Question 24

What was FMLN politically?

Answer 24

Right

Question 25

What year did the Panama Canal finish in?

Answer 25

1914

Question 26

What date did Panama and the US transfer the Panama Canal?

Answer 26

12/31/99

Question 27

Who was Manuel Noriega

Answer 27

General accused of helping drug dealers and he did, Reagan tried to pressure him to resign but he didn’t so they cut aid.

Question 28

Why was Noriega imprisoned for 40 years?

Answer 28

because Panama forces killed an American soldier which Reagan sent troops to capture

Question 29

Who tried to overthrow the Cuban Government?

Answer 29

Jose Marti

Question 30

What did the U.S gain from the Treaty of Paris 1898

Answer 30

Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba as a protectorate, and Philippines

Question 31

What year did US recognize Cuba as a country

Answer 31

1902

Question 32

Platt Amendment

Answer 32

No Cuban land transfers except to US, US can intervene at any time, keep Guantanamo Bay

Question 33

What happened in Cuba after Gerardo Machado was overthrown?

Answer 33

Nationalization

Question 34

Who cancelled the Platt Amendment

Answer 34

Batista

Question 35

What year did Castro overthrow Batista in Cuba?

Answer 35

1959

Question 36

What did Castro do to get him arrested?

Answer 36

Attack against the government and fled to Mexico after

Question 37

What did Castro do in Mexico?

Answer 37

Gathered guerrilla forces

Question 38

How did Batista react to Castro?

Answer 38

brutally

Question 39

What did the US do to Cuba after Batista started losing control

Answer 39

stopped shipping weapons

Question 40

What did Castro promise?

Answer 40

improved education, health care, elections, and independence

Question 41

What did Castro actually do?

Answer 41

suppress free press, trials for Batista supporters, land reform, redistribution of income, public education, highest literacy rate, health care

Question 42

Who supported and didnt support Castro?

Answer 42

the poor supported and the middle class and land owners did nir

Question 43

Bay of Pigs

Answer 43

US attempted invasion of Cuba to seize oil refineries owned by the USSR, so they stopped importing sugar and tried to invade Cuba.

Question 44

When did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?

Answer 44

1962

Question 45

What did Castro do to spread communism?

Answer 45

supported Latin American and African communist movements

Question 46

Who was Che Guevara?

Answer 46

guerrilla leader in Cuba, doctor, became a leader after US-backed overthrew Arbenz in Guatemala

Question 47

How did Che Guevara die?

Answer 47

Killed by US trained Bolivian troops

Question 48

who was Rafael Trujillo Molina

Answer 48

dictator for 31 years in the D.R., limited landowners political influence

Question 49

Who was the first democratically elected president in the D.R.?

Answer 49

Juan Bosch

Question 50

Why did Allende become Chile’s president?

Answer 50

an alliance between socialists and communists

Question 51

What did Allende do?

Answer 51

nationalized copper industry, forced break up of large estates, and wage increase

Question 52

What year was Allende overthrown?

Answer 52

1973

Question 53

Who overthrew Allende

Answer 53

Pinochet

Question 54

What did Pinochet do?

Answer 54

controlled the press, dissolved legislature, ended government control in economy (fascist)

Question 55

Who was Juan Peron?

Answer 55

General who was elected and supported by the poor and middle class

Question 56

what year was Peron elected in?

Answer 56

1946

Question 57

Who was Eva Peron

Answer 57

Radio and film star who was loved by the public and Juan Peron’s wife

Question 58

How did Peron lose his most valuable political asset?

Answer 58

his wife’s death

Question 59

What did Peron do?

Answer 59

suppressed political opposition

Question 60

What happened in Argentina in the 60s and 70s?

Answer 60

left wing guerrilla groups caused economic problems

Question 61

What year was Peron elected again?

Answer 61

1973

Question 62

Who became president after Peron’s death in 1974

Answer 62

His wife, Isabel

Question 63

Who overthrew Argentina’s first female president?

Answer 63

the military

Question 64

What was the Dirty War

Answer 64

the government in Argentina kidnapping and sometimes killing political opposers

Question 65

What effects did the Dirty War have on the government

Answer 65

it made them lose support

Question 66

Who won the Falkland Islands War

Answer 66

Britain