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6630349587What countries are part of Latin America?Central America South America Caribbean0
6630387822Map of South America- Brazil - Argentina - Chile - Peru - Bolivia - Colombia - Venezuela1
6630363557Map of Central America- Mexico - Guatemala - Honduras - El Salvador - Nicaragua - Costa Rica - Panama2
6630426286Map of the Caribbean- Haiti - Domincan Republic - Jamaica - Cuba3
6630441746Map of the First, Second, and Third world4
6630451664Soviet Satellites in Europe- East Germany - Poland - Bulgaria - Romania - Albania - Czechoslovakia - Hungary5
6630466017Third World- characterized by poverty and lack of industrialization6
6630474364LDC- Less developed country - most often found in the Southern Hemisphere7
6630480734Why 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
6630500373Mexico; 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
6630571383Import 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 ISI10
6630584424Mexico'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
6630593686Result of Foreign Loans in Latin America- Countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Peru face inflation and falling wages in the 1980s12
6630602984Zapatistas- 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 & negotiation13
6630607319Good Neighbor Policy- In 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt announced this policy which was intended to halt direct U.S. intervention in Latin American politics.14
6630621011The third world tended to turn to this political ideology as a result of peoples' desire for change and a better lifeMarxian Socialism15
6630631698Why did the US use direct intervention after WWII?- In order to contain the spread of Communism16
6630636141Guatemala- 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
6630643968Juan 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 Fruit18
6630652498United 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 company19
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
66306648741954 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. interests22

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