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| 6630349587 | What countries are part of Latin America? | Central America South America Caribbean | 0 | |
| 6630387822 | Map of South America | - Brazil - Argentina - Chile - Peru - Bolivia - Colombia - Venezuela |  | 1 |
| 6630363557 | Map of Central America | - Mexico - Guatemala - Honduras - El Salvador - Nicaragua - Costa Rica - Panama |  | 2 |
| 6630426286 | Map of the Caribbean | - Haiti - Domincan Republic - Jamaica - Cuba |  | 3 |
| 6630441746 | Map of the First, Second, and Third world |  | 4 | |
| 6630451664 | Soviet Satellites in Europe | - East Germany - Poland - Bulgaria - Romania - Albania - Czechoslovakia - Hungary | 5 | |
| 6630466017 | Third World | - characterized by poverty and lack of industrialization | 6 | |
| 6630474364 | LDC | - Less developed country - most often found in the Southern Hemisphere | 7 | |
| 6630480734 | Why are Latin American nations considered less developed? | tend to depend on one crop or resource to export; but if that one resource fails then it hurts the economy. | 8 | |
| 6630500373 | Mexico; the PRI | - Party of the Institutionalized Revolution, Mexico's dominant political party, developed during the 1920's & 1930's by appealing to labor, peasants, & the middle class. | 9 | |
| 6630571383 | Import Substitution Industrialization | - THE THEORY THAT A NATION SHOULD REDUCE ITS FOREIGN DEPENDENCE BY THE LOCAL PRODUCTION OF INDUSTRIALIZED PRODUCTS - SUBSIDIZED BY GOVERNMENT & PROTECTED BY TARIFFS - Mexico's outputs quadrupled from 1945-73 using ISI | 10 | |
| 6630584424 | Mexico's Oil Boom | - prompted Mexico's government to spend lavishly in the 1970's during the global oil crisis. - Such poor financial planning & foreign debt caused Mexico to face significant economic problems in the 1980's when oil prices receded. | 11 | |
| 6630593686 | Result of Foreign Loans in Latin America | - Countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Peru face inflation and falling wages in the 1980s | 12 | |
| 6630602984 | Zapatistas | - Guerilla movement named in honor of Emiliano Zapata; originated in 1994 in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas; government responded to them with a mix of repression & negotiation | 13 | |
| 6630607319 | Good Neighbor Policy | - In 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt announced this policy which was intended to halt direct U.S. intervention in Latin American politics. | 14 | |
| 6630621011 | The third world tended to turn to this political ideology as a result of peoples' desire for change and a better life | Marxian Socialism | 15 | |
| 6630631698 | Why did the US use direct intervention after WWII? | - In order to contain the spread of Communism | 16 | |
| 6630636141 | Guatemala | - The U.S. had good relations with dictator Jorge Ubico (r. 1931-1944) who sold much of Guatemala's land to the United Fruit Company for a cheap price. | 17 | |
| 6630643968 | Juan Jose Arevalo | - Elected president of Guatemala in 1944 after a military coup. - Proposed a series of socialist reforms including land reform & a high income tax; his nationalist program was directed against foreign-owned companies such as United Fruit | 18 | |
| 6630652498 | United Fruit Company | - Guatemala's most important foreign economic concern during the 20th century. - Owned extensive banana plantations, much unused land, the main railroad, & the electric company | 19 | |
| 6630658453 | "Red Jacobo" | - Arbenz's attempted land reform aimed at United Fruit Co. caused the Eisenhower administration, especially Secretary of State John Foster Dulles & CIA Director Avery Dulles, to see a Communist threat. | 20 | |
| 6630664874 | 1954 Guatemala | - Arbenz is overthrown by a few hundred militiamen invading from Honduras, led by Castillo Armas "(r. 1954-1957), backed by the CIA, & funded largely by United Fruit Co. | 21 | |
| 6630675158 | "Banana Republic" | - Term given to conservative or dictatorial Central American governments supported by or created by the U.S. (such as Guatamela); such governments were believed to be either corrupt or subservient to U.S. interests | 22 |
