AP WORLD chapter 33 Flashcards

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