READING ASSIGNMENT FOR WEEK OF APRIL 16TH TO APRIL 20TH

KNOW THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL ASAP!!

1. READ PAGES 554-556 AND KNOW ABOUT LATIN AMERICA'S ECONOMY, THEIR EXPORTS AND HOW THEY ARE TIED TO WESTERN NATIONS.

2. KNOW ABOUT LAND OWNERS TAKING MORE CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT AND LIMITING THE RIGHTS OF THE COMMON PEOPLE. KNOW ABOUT MEXICO'S REVOLUTION IN 1910 AND HOW 95% OF MEXICANS OWNED NO LAND.

3. KNOW ABOUT EMILIANO ZAPATA AND HIS ROLE IN LAND REFORM.

4. KNOW ABOUT THE INCREASING ROLE OF THE U.S. IN LATIN AMERICA AFTER THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND THE ROLE OF THE U.S. MILITARY BETWEEN 1898 AND 1934.

5. READ PAGE 556 AND KNOW AL ABOUT ZAPATA'S LAND REFORM.

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READ PAGES 794 TO 800

1. KNOW ABOUT LATIN AMERICA COUPS AND THEIR MILITARY GOVERNMENTS. KNOW ABOUT THE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS AND HOW THE GREAT DEPRESSION AFFECTED THE LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMY.

2. KNOW ABOUT LATIN AMERICAN DEPENDENCY ON FIRST WORLD NATIONS FOR TECHNOLOGY. KNOW HOW MILITARY GOVERNMENTS LIMITED THE RIGHTS OF THE GROWING MIDDLE CLASS AND KEPT A NEO-COLONIAL ECONOMY.

3. KNOW ABOUT LATIN AMERICA'S DEBT PROBLEMS AND THEIR SLOW TRANSITION TO DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS AFTER THE 1980'S. KNOW ABOUT U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA AFTER WORLD WAR II AND KNOW THE ROLE OF THE OAS IN LATIN AMERICA.

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1. KNOW ABOUT FULGENCIO BATISTA, FIDEL CASTRO AND CHE GUEVARA AND THEIR ROLES IN LATIN AMERICA. KNOW ABOUT THE CIA AND THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION. KNOW SOME OF THE POSITIVE ACHIEVEMENTS MADE BY CASTRO.

2. KNOW ABOUT CHILE, SALVADOR ALLENDE AND MARXISM IN CHILE. KNOW ABOUT ALLENDE'S SOCIALIST POLICIES AND HOW THE CIA AND GEN. PINOCHET OVERTHREW ALLENDE. KNOW ABOUT PINOCHET'S DICTATORSHIP.

3. KNOW ABOUT NICARAGUA, THE SOMOZAS FAMILY, THE SANDINISTAS AND THE CONTRA WAR.

4. KNOW ABOUT JUAN PERON AND HIS ROLE IN ARGENTINA.