4th quarter final exam review
) On the map below, label the following: Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Honduras, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean
Cuba
) How did the United States control Cuba after the Spanish-American War?
) Why did the Cuban people revolt against Fulgencio Batista?
) What policies did Fidel Castro implement in Cuba immediately after taking power in 1959?
) Describe two Cold War events that involved Cuba in the 1960s.
) How did the dissolution of the Soviet Union affect Cuba?
) What is the stated purpose of the US embargo on Cuba?
) What have been some of the effects of the US embargo on the Cuban people?
) What about the US embargo makes it so difficult for other countries to trade with Cuba?
) Why don’t US presidential candidates ever campaign about ending the Cuban embargo?
Mexico
) Why did the people of Mexico revolt against President Porfirio Diaz in 1910?
) What were some of the outcomes of the Mexican Revolution?
Guatemala
) Why did the United States want to remove Jacobo Arbenz from power in 1954? How did the United States remove him?
Chile
) Why did the United States want to remove Salvador Allende from power in 1973? How did the United States remove him?
Nicaragua
) What did the United States do after the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in 1979?
China
) Why did Britain want to sell opium in China so badly in the 1800s?
) Describe three things that Britain got from China as a result of the Opium Wars.
) What caused Mao’s communists and Chiang-kai Shek’s nationalists to agree to a ceasefire between 1937-1946?
) Where did Chiang-kai Shek’s nationalists retreat to after they lost the Chinese Civil War in 1949?
) What were some of the policies that Chairman Mao put into effect immediately after taking power in 1949?
) What happened during the Great Leap Forward between 1958-1961?
) What happened during the Cultural Revolution between 1966-1976?
) What happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989?
) What is China’s one child policy, and what is one unintended side effect of it?
) On the map below, label the following: Chile, Guyana, Venezuela, Suriname, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and French Guiana
