Question 1

During the Great Depression, Argentina's military leadership sought to revitalize the national economy by sponsoring

Accepted Answer

A)  state-centered, import-substitution industrialization and forcing women to retire from public employment. 
B)  neoliberal reforms that favored foreign investment and job opportunities for women. 
C)  new investment in traditional economic sectors like agriculture and cattle-raising. 
D)  cooperative trade treaties with Latin American countries suffering from the global crisis. 
A)  state-centered, import-substitution industrialization and forcing women to retire from public employment. 
B)  neoliberal reforms that favored foreign investment and job opportunities for women. 
C)  new investment in traditional economic sectors like agriculture and cattle-raising. 
D)  cooperative trade treaties with Latin American countries suffering from the global crisis.

Question 2

The Great Depression

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A)  bankrupted Argentina's largest companies and spawned skyrocketing unemployment that hurt women more than men. 
B)  increased immigration and transformed the nation's ethnic labor force. 
C)  dramatically reduced women's participation as a share of the national labor force. 
D)  virtually eliminated women workers in the textile, tobacco, and clothing industries. 
A)  bankrupted Argentina's largest companies and spawned skyrocketing unemployment that hurt women more than men. 
B)  increased immigration and transformed the nation's ethnic labor force. 
C)  dramatically reduced women's participation as a share of the national labor force. 
D)  virtually eliminated women workers in the textile, tobacco, and clothing industries.

Question 3

Estancieros embraced the Saenz-Peña law because they hoped it would

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A)  expand the electoral appeal of Radicals. 
B)  attract new urban political allies by requiring universal male suffrage and a secret ballot. 
C)  restrict immigration and increase their political power. 
D)  expand immigration, increase the rural labor supply, reduce wages, and increase profits. 
A)  expand the electoral appeal of Radicals. 
B)  attract new urban political allies by requiring universal male suffrage and a secret ballot. 
C)  restrict immigration and increase their political power. 
D)  expand immigration, increase the rural labor supply, reduce wages, and increase profits.

Question 4

The Unión Cívica Radical (Radical party) was anything but radical. Outline the history of the Radical party in Argentina. What were its class base and policies and how did these change over time?

Accepted Answer

The Unión Cívica Radical (UCR) was a pol

Question 5

Juan Perón's return in 1974 brought a new economic policy called the Social Contract that called for

Accepted Answer

A)  higher wages for workers. 
B)  a wage and price freeze. 
C)  an end to foreign ownership of Argentine industry. 
D)  a professionalization of the military. 
A)  higher wages for workers. 
B)  a wage and price freeze. 
C)  an end to foreign ownership of Argentine industry. 
D)  a professionalization of the military.

Question 6

IDENTIFICATION
-Hipólito Yrigoyen

Accepted Answer

Hipólito Yrigoyen was an Argentine polit

Question 7

IDENTIFICATION
-Eva Perón

Accepted Answer

Eva Perón, also known as Eva Duarte and

Question 8

During the Infamous Decade, the military abolished prostitution because it

Accepted Answer

A)  spread venereal disease and undermined the patriarchal family. 
B)  increased the competition with urban industry for women workers and boosted wages. 
C)  depleted the state's scarce revenues to pay for prostitutes' medical care. 
D)  promoted popular resistance to the military dictatorship. 
A)  spread venereal disease and undermined the patriarchal family. 
B)  increased the competition with urban industry for women workers and boosted wages. 
C)  depleted the state's scarce revenues to pay for prostitutes' medical care. 
D)  promoted popular resistance to the military dictatorship.

Question 9

The social origins of the tango lay in the dance

Accepted Answer

A)  adopted by Argentine elites who mimicked the French contradanse. 
B)  introduced by Italian immigrants fleeing armed conflict and crime in their native country. 
C)  associated with middle-class urban professionals who disdained elite cultural traditions. 
D)  first performed by enslaved Africans and later by poor people in bars and brothels. 
A)  adopted by Argentine elites who mimicked the French contradanse. 
B)  introduced by Italian immigrants fleeing armed conflict and crime in their native country. 
C)  associated with middle-class urban professionals who disdained elite cultural traditions. 
D)  first performed by enslaved Africans and later by poor people in bars and brothels.

Question 10

IDENTIFICATION
-Juan Carlos Onganía

Accepted Answer

Juan Carlos Onganía was an Argentine arm

Question 11

IDENTIFICATION
-Semana Trágica (Tragic Week)

Accepted Answer

The Semana Trágica, or Tragic Week, refe

Question 12

Argentine women were granted the right to vote and hold office in 1947, largely because

Accepted Answer

A)  Perón's wife, Evita, was a fervent feminist who pressured her husband to support women's equality. 
B)  they were 45 percent of industrial workers and demanded their political and civil rights. 
C)  Perón's conservative Catholic government expected women's vote to favor the Church. 
D)  the U.S. government had pressured Perón to show his commitment to democracy. 
A)  Perón's wife, Evita, was a fervent feminist who pressured her husband to support women's equality. 
B)  they were 45 percent of industrial workers and demanded their political and civil rights. 
C)  Perón's conservative Catholic government expected women's vote to favor the Church. 
D)  the U.S. government had pressured Perón to show his commitment to democracy.

Question 13

IDENTIFICATION
-Juan Perón

Accepted Answer

Juan Perón was an Argentine military off

Question 14

The operating mechanism of the Radical party was

Accepted Answer

A)  a conservative fiscal policy and political stability. 
B)  a liberal economic policy. 
C)  patronage for the working class. 
D)  high tariffs for industrialists. 
A)  a conservative fiscal policy and political stability. 
B)  a liberal economic policy. 
C)  patronage for the working class. 
D)  high tariffs for industrialists.

Question 15

The Radicals split apart during the 1920s because

Accepted Answer

A)  one faction wanted an alliance with the Socialists. 
B)  the military disapproved of party policies. 
C)  Yrigoyen wanted his son-in-law to succeed him as president. 
D)  the middle class and oligarchy disagreed over government fiscal policy. 
A)  one faction wanted an alliance with the Socialists. 
B)  the military disapproved of party policies. 
C)  Yrigoyen wanted his son-in-law to succeed him as president. 
D)  the middle class and oligarchy disagreed over government fiscal policy.

During the Great Depression, Argentina's military leadership sought to revitalize the national economy by sponsoring

The Great Depression

Estancieros embraced the Saenz-Peña law because they hoped it would

The Unión Cívica Radical (Radical party) was anything but radical. Outline the history of the Radical party in Argentina. What were its class base and policies and how did these change over time?

Juan Perón's return in 1974 brought a new economic policy called the Social Contract that called for

IDENTIFICATION -Hipólito Yrigoyen

IDENTIFICATION -Eva Perón

During the Infamous Decade, the military abolished prostitution because it

The social origins of the tango lay in the dance

IDENTIFICATION -Juan Carlos Onganía

IDENTIFICATION -Semana Trágica (Tragic Week)

Argentine women were granted the right to vote and hold office in 1947, largely because

IDENTIFICATION -Juan Perón

The operating mechanism of the Radical party was

The Radicals split apart during the 1920s because

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Exam 6: Argentina: Populism, the Military, and the Struggle for Democracy

During the Great Depression, Argentina's military leadership sought to revitalize the national economy by sponsoring

The Great Depression

Estancieros embraced the Saenz-Peña law because they hoped it would

The Unión Cívica Radical (Radical party) was anything but radical. Outline the history of the Radical party in Argentina. What were its class base and policies and how did these change over time?

Juan Perón's return in 1974 brought a new economic policy called the Social Contract that called for

IDENTIFICATION -Hipólito Yrigoyen

IDENTIFICATION -Eva Perón

During the Infamous Decade, the military abolished prostitution because it

The social origins of the tango lay in the dance

IDENTIFICATION -Juan Carlos Onganía

IDENTIFICATION -Semana Trágica (Tragic Week)

Argentine women were granted the right to vote and hold office in 1947, largely because

IDENTIFICATION -Juan Perón

The operating mechanism of the Radical party was

The Radicals split apart during the 1920s because

Decolonization and the Search for National Identities, 1821-1870

Race, Nation, and the Meaning of Freedom, 1821-1888

The Triumph of Neocolonialism and the Liberal State, 1870-1900

Forging a New Nation: the Mexican Revolution and the Populist Challenge

Brazil: Populism and the Struggle for Democracy in a Multiracial Society

Cuba: The Revolutionary Socialist Alternative to Populism

Storm Over the Andes: Indigenous Rights and the Corporatist Military Alternative

Chile: The Democratic Socialist Alternative

Twilight of the Tyrants: Revolution and Prolonged Popular War in Central America

Lands of Bolívar: Military Crisis, State Repression, and Popular Democracy

Deconstructing the State: Dictatorship and Neoliberal Markets

Transcending Neoliberalism: Electoral Engaños and Popular Resistance to the Dictatorship of Markets

The Two Americas: United States-Latin American Relations

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