Latin America after WW1 Flashcards

143853271	Neo-Colonialism	control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures	0
143853272	Fidel Castro	Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)	1
143853273	Diego Rivera	socialist Mexican painter of murals (1886-1957)	2
143853274	Augusto Cesar Sandino	latin american hero from Nicaragua who lead guerrilla war against US	3
143853275	dollar diplomacy	diplomacy influenced by economic considerations	4
143853276	Yankee Imperialism	When the American investors poured into Cuba, buying up plantations, factories, railroads, and refineries.	5
143853277	Vargas	dictator-president who turned Brazil into an estado novo with new industries such as steel.	6
143853278	Good Neighbor Policy	President Franklin Roosevelt's policy intended to strengthen friendly relations with Latin America	7
143853279	Juan Batista Sacasa	elected president of Nicaragua in 1932 before he was assasinated	8
143853280	Anastacio Somoza Garcia	dictator of Nicaragua after being head of the National Guard and assassinating the President, collected large fortune, had U.S. support	9
143853281	National Guard	U.S. trains Nicaraguan guard in effort to help Nicaragua rule itself and get U.S. marines out of the country.	10
143853282	Lazaro Cardenas	President of Mexico (1934-1940). He brought major changes to Mexican life by distributing millions of acres of land to the peasants, bringing representatives of workers and farmers into the inner circles of politics, and nationalizing the oil industry	11
143853283	United Fruit Company	U.S. corporation that controlled the banana trade in much of Latin America	12
143853284	Chiquita Banana	fruit version of carmen and tried to show that the united fruit companies neocolonialism wasnt negative	13