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Jeopardy 46
Postwar Latin America
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History
10th Grade
04/11/2007

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The free trade agreement among Mexico, Canada, and the United States
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NAFTA
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Men who have often taken over Latin American governments
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military officers
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Major social and economic problem of Latin America
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poverty
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The rapid growth of this worsens social and economic problems.
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population
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Latin American governments faced disaster in the 1980s when they could not repay these.
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loans for development
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Destruction of this environment affects the entire world.
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the rain forest
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Common Latin American need to help build industries
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capital
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Growing demand for these often causes violent protest.
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social and economic reforms
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Small group, often of military officers, that overthrows a democratic government
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a junta
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The U.S. often intervened when it feared this type of takeover in a Latin American gov't.
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a communist takeover
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Two common crops of one-crop countries
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coffee and sugar
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Breaking up of large estates and distribution of land to peasants
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land (agrarian) reform
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Latin American countries had to pay much higher prices for these as of the late 1970s.
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imports (oil and agricultural chemicals)
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Commodity whose rise in price staggered many Latin American economies
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oil
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Latin American countries received much less for these starting in the late 1970s.
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exports
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Assembly plants along Mexico's northern border
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maquiladoras
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Inter-American organization founded in 1948
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the Organization of American States (OAS)
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Aid project to promote Latin American development process
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the Alliance for Progress
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Class that paid few taxes
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wealthly landowners
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Where wealthy Latin Americans preferred to invest their funds
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abroad
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Inter-American agreement - no state has the right to intervene in another state's affairs
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the Montevideo Pact
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Country that took over a waterway in 1999
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Panama
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Production of this boosted Mexico's economy in the 1970s.
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oil
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Site of a disastrous Mexican earthquake in 1985
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Mexico City
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Area of Panama formerly controlled by the United States
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the Canal Zone
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Panama's military leader, tried in the United States for drug trafficking
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General Manuel Noriega
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Country invaded by U.S. forces in 1989
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Panama
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Large country with a long record of elected presidents
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Mexico City
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Rebels who overthrew the Nicaraguan government in 1979
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the Sandinistas
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Rebels who opposed the new, 1980s government of Nicaragua
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the contras
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Cuba and the Soviet Union supported this side in the 1980s El Salvador fighting.
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the rebels
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Sandinista leader elected president of Nicaragua in 1984 and defeated in 1990
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Daniel Ortega
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Nicaraguan contras established guerrilla bases in this country.
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Honduras
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First president of Mexico since 1929 not from the PRI party, elected in 2000
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Vicente Fox Quesada
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Winner of 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his Central American peace initiative
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Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica
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Civilian leader of El Salvador's government in the 1980s
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Jose Napoleon Duarte
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New name of British Honduras as of 1993
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Belize
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Country that endured a thirty-year civil war that tapered off in the 1990s
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Guatemala
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Nicaragua's ruling family from the 1930s to 1979
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the Somozas
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Neutral nation with an orderly succession of democratic governments since 1974
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Costa Rica
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Peasant rebels have caused turmoil in this southern Mexican state.
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Chiapas
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The United States helped to overthrow this country's liberal government in the 1950s.
Definition
Guatemala
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President and dictator of Argentina
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Juan Peron
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First democratically elected Marxist leader in the Western Hemisphere
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Salvador Allende
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U.S. group accused of being involved in Allende's overthrow
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the CIA
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Argentina went to war with Great Britain in 1982 over these islands.
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the Falkland Islands
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Brazil moved its capital to Brasilia to help develop this area.
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the interior
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By 1970, most Brazilians lived in these areas.
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urban areas
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The army of this large country rebelled against a leftist government in 1964.
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Brazil
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Country that had a Marxist president
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Chile
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Deadly disease that became an epidemic in the early 1990s
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cholera
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Juan Peron's wives who helped him rule
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Eva and Isabel Peron
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First female president in the Western Hemisphere
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Isabel Peron
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Los desaparecidos of Argentina
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the disappeared ones
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Country that connects South America with Central America
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Colombia
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South American member of OPEC
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Venezuela
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Countries terrorized by their drug lords
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Bolivia and Colombia
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Country whose army fought the Tupamaros guerrillas
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Uruguay
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Argentina's Spanish name for the Falklands
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the Malvinas
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Brazilian city; major industrial center of South America
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Sao Paulo
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Military leader who succeeded Allende in Chile
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General Augusto Pinochet
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Leftist guerrilla group of Peru
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the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso)
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Paraguay's military leader from 1954 to 1989
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General Alfredo Stroessner
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Cuba's revolutionary leader
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Fidel Castro
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Caribbean island with a communist government
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Cuba
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The U.S.S.R. removed these weapons from Cuba in 1962.
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missiles
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Cuba tried to export this throughout Latin America.
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revolution
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Center of Cuban exile settlement in the United States
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Miami
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Target city for Puerto Rican immigration into the United States
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New York City
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Natural disasters that periodically devastate the islands
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hurricanes
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Cuban communist revolutionary leader; close associate of Castro
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Che Guevara
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Cuba's close ally and aid-giver
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the Soviet Union
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Cuba took over all of these businesses in 1961.
Definition
U.S.-owned businesses
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Cuban coastal area invaded in 1961
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the Bay of Pigs
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Self-governing U.S. territory in the Caribbean
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the Virgin Islands
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Country that voted in 1967 to remain a commonwealth
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Puerto Rico
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Troops from this country landed in the Dominican Republic in 1965.
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the United States
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Haiti's president and dictator from 1957 to 1971
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Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc)
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Duvalier's successor in 1971; ousted in 1986
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Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc)
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Country where U.S. and U.N. troops kept order in the 1990s
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Haiti
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Country invaded in 1983 by the United States and troops from six Caribbean nations
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Grenada
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Dictator of Cuba before the revolution
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Fulgencio Batista
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Cuban troops fought in this southern African nation's civil war
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Angola
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The massive exodus of Cubans to the United States in 1980
Definition
the Mariel boatlift
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