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Latin America Jeopardy: History and Politics Edition

Test your knowledge on Latin American history and politics with this interactive Jeopardy-style game. From revolutionary leaders to key events, challenge yourself to give the correct questions to the provided answers. Click to start now!

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Latin America Jeopardy: History and Politics Edition

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. Challenges Mexico Central America More Central America Cuba Wild Card 1 Point 1 Point 1 Point 1 Point 1 Point 1 Point 2 Points 2 Points 2 Points 2 Points 2 Points 2 Points 3 Points 3 Points 3 Points 3 Points 3 Points 3 Points 4 Points 4 Points 4 Points 4 Points 4 Points 4 Points 5 Points 5 Points 5 Points 5 Points 5 Points 5 Points

  4. Relying too much on a single crop or mineral for export

  5. Monoculture

  6. Taxing imports to favor the purchase of locally made goods

  7. Import Substitution

  8. Promotes economic, political, cultural, and military cooperation in the western hemisphere

  9. Organization of American States

  10. Biggest problem with multinational corporations

  11. They take all the profit out of the Latin American country back to where they are based.

  12. Birthrates remained high while death rates fell because of health care, nutrition, and sanitation improvements

  13. Why population grew quickly in Latin America?

  14. Political party that dominated Mexico’s government for 70 years

  15. PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party)

  16. First non-PRI president of 20th century; 2000-2008; made many reforms

  17. Vicente Fox

  18. Causes of Mexican economic problems

  19. DEBT; oil prices low in 1950s, 1960s, 1980s; earthquakes; low peso value

  20. Controversial US, Mexico, Canada free trade zone

  21. NAFTA

  22. Cause of Mexico city’s environmental problems

  23. Too many people with too many cars and too few sewers living in the top of an extinct volcano

  24. Anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua and El Salvador

  25. Contras

  26. Marxist, anti-Somoza rebels in Nicaragua

  27. Sandinistas

  28. 1979-1990 Communist leader of Nicaragua; currently their socialist president

  29. Daniel Ortega

  30. Her 1990 election ended Communist rule in Nicaragua; she served as a symbol of democracy

  31. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro

  32. 1987 Nobel Peace prize winner for trying to settle regional conflicts; president of Costa Rica until last year

  33. Oscar Arias

  34. Panamanian dictator and convicted drug lord

  35. Manuel Noriega

  36. 1992 Nobel Peace prize winner; Guatemalan social reform activist

  37. Rigoberta Menchú

  38. 2005 signed to increase trade between US and Central America

  39. CAFTA

  40. US supported president of El Salvador 1980-82, 1984-89

  41. Jose Napoleon Duarte

  42. Combatants in Guatemala’s civil war

  43. URNG Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Mayan rebel group) vs. anti-Mayan government forces

  44. He overthrew the pro-US Cuban dictator Batista in 1959 and established a Communist dictatorship.

  45. Fidel Castro

  46. US tried to invade Cuba with CIA trained exiles.

  47. Bay of Pigs Invasion

  48. Argentine revolutionary who assisted in overthrow of Batista in 1959

  49. Ernesto Ché Guevara

  50. US spy planes discovered Soviets building threats in Cuba.

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