Recent Events in Latin America

Vocabulary:

• Civil war

• guerrillas

• Constitution of 1917

• indigenous

• Constitutionalists

• Panama Canal

• Contras

• Sandinistas

• dictator

• Spanish-­American War

• epidemic

• Yellow Fever

examine oligarchies, dictatorships, populism, and the Good Neighbor Policy and their impact on the South American movement towards democracy using rewritten definitions, and notes from class discussion.

Vocabulary:

• Chaco War

• Oligarchy

• Dictatorship

• Populism

• Good Neighbor Policy

• War of the Pacific

• Modernization

• War of Triple Alliance

• Monroe Doctrine

understand the relationship between the United States and Cuba during the Cold War using national point of view charts, and class discussion.

Vocabulary:

• Bay of Pigs

• French West Indies

• Cold War

• Monroe Doctrine

• Commonwealth

• Naval Blockade

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Nuclear War

• Exports

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Fidel Castro

• Spanish­American War