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35 Cards in this Set
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Third World |
*Face issues with economic development
*Opposite of industrialized and capitalist nations |
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Mexican revolution |
* Caused by the outbreak of World War I
* Violent Reaction to authoritarian modernization |
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Francisco Madero |
* A wealthy son of an elite family
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Pancho Villa |
*Able commander who led a rebellion in the North
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Emiliano Zapata |
* Goal of land reform was expressed in his motto " Tierra y Libertad"
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: General Victoriano Huerta |
*Sought to impose a Diaz- type dictatorship supported by the large land owners, the army, and the foreign companies
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Alvaro Obregon |
* An able general who had learned the new tactic of machine guns and trenches from the war raging in Europe
*He beat Villa's cavalry in a series of bloody battles in 1915 |
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Mexican Constitution of 1917 |
*Promised land reform
*Limited foreign ownership of key resources *guaranteed the right's of workers |
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: President Lazaro Cardenas |
*Under his rule more than 40 million acres were distributed
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco |
* Recaptured that past and outlined a social program for the future in stunning murals on public buildings
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Party of the Industrialized Revolution |
* Hoped yo institutionalize the new regime by creating one-party system
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: North America Free Trade Agreement |
*Offered new hope to the nation through economic arrangements
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Import Substituio ndustrialization |
* Cut off from supplies of traditional imports, but these countries experience a spurt of industrial growth
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Anarchism |
*Aimed to smash the state entirely by using the general strike to gain power
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: syndicalism |
*Aimed to use the organization of labor to achieve that goal
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Tragic Week |
* The Government reaction to revolutionary workers led to brutal repression under the guise of nationalism
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Seven Essays of Peruvian Reality |
* Jose Carlos Mariategui's essays became classics for social criticism
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Victor Raul Haya de la Torre |
* Created the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in 1924
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Corporatism |
*A political ideology that emphasized the organic nature of society and made the state a mediator
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Getulio Vargas |
*New president in Brazil in 1929 after a short civil war
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Eva Duarte |
* Public spokesperson for Peron among the lower classes
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Juan Jose Arevalo |
*He began a series of programs within the context of spiritual socialism that included land reform and an improvement in the rights and conditions of rural and industrial workers
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: United Fruit Company |
* The largest most important foreign company in Guatemala
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Fulegencio Batista |
* A strong-willed, authoritarian reformer who had risen from the lower ranks of the army
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Fidel Castro |
* A young lawyer experiences in leftist university politics and an ardent critic of the Batista government and the ills of the Cuban society
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Ernesto"Che" Guevara |
*A militant Argentine revolutionary
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: liberation theology |
* Combined Catholic theology and socialist principles in an effort to improve conditions for the poor
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Salvador Allende |
*President of Socialist government in Chile that was overthrown in 1973 by the Chilean military
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Sandinista Party |
* Nicaraguan Socialist movement named after Augusto Sandino
* Successfully carried out a Socialist Revolution in Nicaragua during the 1980s |
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Augusto Sandino |
*Led a resistance movement against occupying troops until his assassination by the U.S.-trained Nicaraguan National Guards in 1934
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Banana Republic |
* A reference to their dependence on the export of the crop and their subservient and corrupt governments
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Good Neighbor Policy |
* Promised to deal more fairly with Latin America and to stop direct interventions
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Alliance for Progress |
* Aimed to develop the region as an alternative to those solutions
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: Sur |
* An important literary magazine written by Victoria Ocampo
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century
Vocabulary: One hundred Years of Solitude |
* Used the history of a family in a mythical town called Macondo as an allegory of Latin America and traced the evils that befell the family
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