Exam 50: Latin America in the Twentieth Century

Which country and leader had a strong element of support from the descamisados, or the "shirtless ones"?

Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

Term for identification: Good Neighbor Policy

Term for identification: descamisados

What are the economic and social issues facing 20th century Latin America?

What are the economic and social issues facing twentieth-century Latin America?

A recent phenomenon and major turnabout by the Catholic Church in Latin America is its recent actions in

The military in ____________________ stepped down in the 1980s after foolishly provoking a war with ____________________ over the Falkland Islands.

The ___________________ has had much more success in alleviating hunger in Latin America than in Africa.

The real catalyst for U.S. activity in Latin America was the 1959 seizure of power by ____________________.

Venezuela's president ____________________ is the most recent example of a Latin American populist caudillo.

For Latin America, the most important social issue is

The ____________________ was established in the 1960s to help develop Latin American economies.

Term for identification: banana republic

One result of economic dependency in Latin American countries has been the frequent protests that have often been led by

During the 1930s and 1940s in many Latin American countries,

It is a virtual certainty that the United States will never again resort to "____________________" in Latin America as it did before 1930.

In Latin America, what was the most successful aspect of the Alliance for Progress begun during the Kennedy administration?

FDR's ____________________ treated Latin American countries more as sovereign nations than as ____________________.

In reference to Latin America in the Twentieth Century, what does your text mean by "persistent dependency"?