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| 137129459 | Haiti Slave Revolt | The first successful Latin American revolt against the Europeans. | 0 | |
| 137129460 | Pierre Toussaint L'Overture | The person who led the Haiti Slave Revolt | 1 | |
| 137129461 | Simon Bolivar | a Spanish Governor in the Americas, created a National Congress and declared independence from Spain in 1811. | 2 | |
| 137129462 | Jose de San Martin | took command of the Argentina army. He also joined Bernardo O'Higgins from Chile and Simon Bolivar and created a huge revolution against Spain. | 3 | |
| 137129463 | Miguel Hidalgo | a Creole priest led a revolution against Spain in Mexico in 1810. | 4 | |
| 137129464 | Monroe Doctrine | assured U.S. protection against recolonization. | 5 | |
| 137129465 | Roosevelt Corrolary | declared that the U.S. would intervene in economic disputes between Europe and Latin America. | 6 | |
| 137129466 | Platt Amendment | Provided for U.S. naval bases in Cuba. | 7 | |
| 137129467 | Cuban Missile Crisis | In 1962, secret spy planes located the missiles and President Kennedy immediately created a blockade around Cuba with U.S. naval ships, refusing to allow any more shipments from Russia to Cuba. For three months the world waited to see who would give in. | 8 | |
| 137129468 | Francisco Madero | a firm supporter of democracy and of making government subject to the strict limits of the law, was a threat to President Diaz. | 9 | |
| 137129469 | Pascual Orozco and Francisco Villa | excellent strategists, and they earned the allegiance of the people of northern Mexico, who were unhappy about the abusive ranchers and landlords who ran the North. | 10 | |
| 137129470 | Emiliano Zapata | led the uprising of the peasants of Morelos to claim their rights over local land and water. | 11 | |
| 137129471 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew Batista in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) | 12 | |
| 137129472 | Batista | Cuban dictator overthrown by Fidel Castro. Originally a sergeant in the military. Very corrupt leader with the use mobsters during his reign --he was anti-communist, so the US supported him. | 13 |
