| A | B |
|---|
| third world | term created in the cold war era that distinguished countries from capitalist industralized nations and communist industrialized nations |
| PRI | controlled Mexico from 1940s to 2000; started to have corruption and lacked social improvements |
| Zapatistas | armed gurerilla group that started in the southern state of Chiapas |
| United Fruit Company | the largest and most important foreign concern in Guatemala in the second half of the 20th century |
| Fidel Castro | took power with his guerrilla army and set into place the socialist regime in Cuba |
| liberation theology | combined Catholic theology and socialist principles or used Marxist catergories for understanding society |
| Augusto Sandino | led a resistance movement against occupying troops until his assassination by the US trained Nicaraguan troops |
| banana republics | nations that had conservative governments who were friendly to the United States |
| Good Neighbor Policy | Franklin Roosevelts policy to deal more fairly with Latin America and to stop direct intervention |
