AP World Chapter 32 Terms Flashcards

Mr. Brown AP World ECHHS

375862799	Francisco Madero	moderate democratic Mexican reformer; challenged Profirio Diaz in 1910 and initiated a revolution after losing fraudulent elections; assassinated in 1913	0
375862800	Pancho Villa	Mexican revolutionary leader in northern Mexico after 1910	1
375862801	Emiliano Zapata	Mexican revolutionary commander of a guerrilla movement centered at Morelos; demanded sweeping land reforms	2
375862802	Alvaro Obregón	became leader of Mexican government in 1915; elected president in 1920	3
375862803	Mexican Constitution of 1917	promised land and educational reform, limited foreign ownership, guaranteed rights for workers, and restricted clerical education and property ownership	4
375862804	Lázaro Cárdenas	Mexican president (1934-1940); responsible for large land redistribution to create communal farms; also began program of primary and rural education	5
375862805	Cristeros	conservative peasant movement in Mexico during the 1920s; a reaction agains secularism	6
375862806	Party of Institutionalized Revolution (PRI)	inclusive Mexican political party developing from the 1920s; ruled for the rest of the 20th century	7
375862807	Voctor Raul Haya de la Torre	Peruvian politician; created the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in 1924; gained power in 1985	8
375862808	Getúlio Vargas	became president of Brazil following a contested election of 1929; led an authoritarian state until deposed in 1945; became president again in 1950	9
375862809	Juan Perón	dominant authoritarian and populist leader in Argentina from the mid-1940s; driven into exile in 1955; returned and elected president in 1973; died in 1974	10
375862810	Eva Duarte (Evita)	wife of Juan Perón; the regime's spokesperson among the lower social classes	11
375862811	Juan José Arevalo	reformist president of Guatemala elected in 1944; his programs led to conflict with foreign interests	12
375862812	United Fruit Company	most important foreign company in Guatemala; 1993 nationalization effort of some of its land holdings caused a U.S. reaction	13
375862813	Fulgencio Batista	authoritarian ruler of Cuba (1934-1944)	14
375862814	Fidel Castro	revolutionary leader who replaced Batista in 1958; reformed Cuban society with socialist measures; supported economically and politically by the Soviet Union until its collaps	15
375862815	Liberation theology	combination of Roman Catholic and socialist principles aiming to improve the lives of the poor	16
375862816	Salvado Allende	Chilean socialist president; overthrown by a military coup in 1973	17
375862817	Good Neighbor Policy	introduced by U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to deal fairly, without intervention, with Latin American states	18