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| 151107312 | banana republics | Term given to governments supported or created by the United States in Central America; believed to be either corrupt or subservient to U.S. interests | 0 | |
| 151107313 | Fulgencio Batista | Dictator of Cuba from 1934-1944; returned to presidency in 1952; ousted from government by revolution led by Fidel Castro | 1 | |
| 151107314 | Fidel Castro | Cuban revolutionary; overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1958; initiated series of socialist reforms; came to depend almost exclusively on Soviet Union | 2 | |
| 151107315 | Falkland Islands | Islands in South America that the British claimed after World War 2; Argentina wanted the islands, a war broke out over the islands, resulted in many deaths | 3 | |
| 151107316 | Good Neighbor Policy | Established by Franklin D. Roosevelt for dealing with Latin America in 1933; intended to halt direct intervention in Latin American politics | 4 | |
| 151107317 | Che Guevara | Argentine revolutionary; aided Fidel Castro in overthrow of Fulgencio Batista regime in Cuba; died while directing guerrilla movement in Bolivia in 1967 | 5 | |
| 151107318 | Manuel Noriega | Panama leader who was overthrown in a 1989 US invasion; tried and imprisoned for drug trafficking | 6 | |
| 151107319 | Juan Peron | Military leader in Argentina who became dominant political figure after military coup in 1943; used position as Minister of Labor to appeal to working groups and the poor; became president in 1946; forced into exile in 1955; returned and won presidency in 1973 | 7 | |
| 151107320 | Party of the Institutionalized Revolution | PRI; dominant political party in Mexico; developed during the 1920s and 1930s; incorporated labor, peasant, military, and middle-class sectors; controlled other political organizations in Mexico | 8 | |
| 151107321 | Sandinasta party | Nicaraguan socialist movement named after Augusto Sandino; successfully carried out a socialist revolution in Nicaragua during the 1980s | 9 | |
| 151107322 | third world | Also known as developing nations; nations outside the capitalist industrial nations of the first world and the industrialized communist nations of the second world; generally less economically powerful, but with varied economies | 10 | |
| 151107323 | U.N. Declaration of Human Rights | A declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled | 11 | |
| 151107324 | United Fruit Company | Most important foreign economic concern in Guatemala during the 20th century; attempted land reform aimed at United Fruit caused U.S. intervention in Guatemalan politics leading to ouster of reform government in 1954 | 12 | |
| 151107325 | Zapatistas | Guerrilla movement named in honor of Emiliano Zapata; originated in 1994 in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas; government responded with a combination of repression and negotiation | 13 |
