1. LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
Lesson 2b
Recent / Modern History

2. Life in Spanish America
What are these terms?
Encomienda System (477)
The King’s Viceroy (479)
Peninsulares (696)
Creoles (696)

3. Columbian Exchange
What was this?
What was" exchanged”? (483)

4. Anti-Spanish Rebellion
What did each man do, when did he do it,
and what was the significance?
Haiti – Toussaint L’Ouverture (696)
Mexico – Father Hidalgo ( )
South America - Simon Bolivar (699)

5. Independence for Mexico
Mexico – Santa Anna (762)
Who was he? What did he do?
Mexican Revolution (762)
What was the fate of most Mexicans?

6. Independent Cuba Conditions in Cuba (763) (describe…)
Spanish-American War (764)
Who won, what did they get, what is the Platt Agreement?

7. Independent Panama Why did USA support a revolt in Columbia? (765)
What did we get from a newly independent Panama in return? What did we then do? (765)

8. Trends in Latin America
Social Trends (968)
What was “the gap” described?
How is this consistent with Ancient and Spanish Latin America? (your view)

9. Cuban Revolution Reasons for Revolt (969) (describe…)
Goals of the Revolution (969)
What was Castrol able to do?
What was the “price” that was not very “American”? (969)

10. American Conflicts Cuba (971) Nicaragua (972)
Why have Cubans escaped to come to the USA?
Nicaragua (972)
What are the Sandinistas?
What are the Contras?

11. Dictatorship in Argentina
Who was Juan Peron? Who was Eva Peron? (974)
One party state (974)
Military dictatorships (974)
What were the “dirty wars”?

12. Other Dictatorship Brazil’s modernization problems (975)
Chile’s Pinochet’s oppressive measures (976)
Haiti’s Aristide – US involvement? (977)
Panama’s Noriega (977)
What were his illegal actions and what did we do?

13. Return of Democracies
Why did most countries abandon dictatorships? (979) Give examples.
What is NAFTA? (980)

14. Result of Market Reforms
What was the result of market reforms? (982)
Who is Hugo Chavez?

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