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Unit 12
Latin America Since WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dictator who led a communist revolution in Russia. | Fidel Castro |
| Communist terrorist group in Peru that was responsible for killing politicians, priests and peasants in Peru | Shining Path |
| the land in the Western Hemisphere south of the United States | Latin America |
| The selling of government owned businesses to individuals | privatization |
| Treaty that lifted all trade barriers between Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Led to increased interdependence. | NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) |
| Anti-communist forces in Nicaragua who was receiving support from the United States in the 1980s | Contras |
| to provide order and stability in the years following WWII, many Latin American nations turned to this type of government | military dictatorship |
| Recently (the 1980s and 1990s) the political trend in Latin America has been a shift from dictatorship to ____________________ | democracy |
| Chaos in Colombia has been caused by these organizations that control the drug trade. | cartels |
| Process of redistributing land to the peasants. Designed to fix the problem of large amount of land held by very few individuals. | land reform |
| War waged by the military government in Argentina that resulted in the deaths of between 10,000 and 30,000 Argentinians | Dirty War |
| Cuba has struggled economically since the fall of this nation | Soviet Union |
| There is large amount of resentment toward the interference of this nation in the affairs of Latin America | United States |
| A crop produced for the purpose of selling rather than by the use of the grower. | cash crop |
| Communist revolutionaries who gained power in Nicaragua | Sandinistas |
| The idea that the Catholic Church in Latin America should work against corruption and advocate for the rights and economic improvement of the poor and disadvantaged | Liberation Theology |
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