This document outlines the lessons and guiding questions for a unit on Latin America. It covers the Mexican Revolution and the results that established the Institutional Revolutionary Party. It discusses the struggles of Latin American nations after independence and issues like neocolonialism. Several lessons focus on individual countries like Mexico under Cárdenas, Brazil under Vargas, Argentina under Perón, Chile under Pinochet, and Cuba before and after the revolution. It also addresses topics like the Cold War era in Latin America, military dictatorships, and contemporary issues facing the region today.

1. Unit Five Latin America

2. Lesson 1 Mexican Revolution

3. Guiding Questions
● What conditions in Mexico led to the 1910 revolution?
● What were the goals of the revolution?
● What were the results of the Mexican Revolution?

4. Porfirio Diaz

5. Hacienda system

6. Francisco Modero

7. Victoriano Huerta

8. Emiliano Zapata
Plan of Ayala
"Tierra y Libertad"

9. Francisco (Pancho) Villa

10. Venustiano Carranza

11. Mexican Constitution 1917

12. Alvaro Obregon

13. Soldadera

14. Margarita Neri

15. Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

16. Lesson 2- Latin America
Struggles with Neocolonialism

17. Lesson 3 Great Depression and
the Rise of New Regimes

18. Guiding Questions
● What were the struggles faced by Latin American nations post-
independence?
● What was neocolonialism, and what impact did it have on the economies of
Latin America?

19. Guiding Questions
● How did the global depression impact the political and economic structures
in Latin America?

20. Neocolonialism

21. “Dependent development”

22. Liberalism

23. the end of the revolution
Why was the wall built? it’s not what you think?

24. Mexico and WWI

25. Remaking Mexico

26. Repatriation

27. How Mexico restructured the economy

28. How Mexico restructured the economy

29. Lesson 4 Mexico under
Cárdenas

30. Guiding Questions
● How did Cárdenas fulfill the promises of the Mexican Revolution?
● How did the PRI develop into a dominant political force?

31. Lazaro Cárdenas

32. Cardenas and land reform
ejidos

33. Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

34. PEMEX

35. “El Milagro Mexicano”

36. Diego Rivera

37. Overview of Mexico in the 20th century

38. Lesson 5 Brazil and the Vargas
Era

39. Guiding Questions
● What factors led to Getúlio Vargas gaining control of Brazil?
● What was the impact of the estado novo on Brazil’s economy and society?
● How did Vargas’ nationalist policies impact the indigenous peoples of
Brazil?

40. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas

41. Estado novo
Coup D’Etat
Brasil Today

42. Lesson 6 Argentina and
Perónism

43. Guiding Questions
● What were the goals of the military government that brought Peron into
power?
● What changes did Perón make during his rule?
● How was the leadership of Vargas in Brazil similar to the leadership of
Peron in Argentina?

44. Juan Perón

45. Eva Perón

46. Descamisados

47. The Populist and Demagogue

48. Lessons 8-9: Mexico and
Argentina (DBQ Assignment)

49. Lesson 8 Latin America and the
U.S.: From Good Neighbor to
Cold War

50. Guiding Questions
● What economic and geopolitical interests influenced US foreign policy in
Latin America?
● What motivated the shift from the Roosevelt Corollary to “dollar
diplomacy” and Good Neighbor Policy?
● How were the 20th century regional agreements an extension of the
Monroe Doctrine?

51. Dollar diplomacy

52. Good Neighbor Policy

53. Cold War

54. Containment

55. Rio Pact

56. Organization of American States

57. Lesson 11: Cuba Before the
Revolution

58. Guiding Questions
● Explain the trajectory of Fulgencio Batista’s career.

59. The Machado Government

60. San Martin Government

61. Fulgencio Batista

62. Military coup

63. Moncada Attack

64. Lesson 12: Cuban Revolution
and the Castro Regime

65. Guiding Questions
● What were the causes and outcomes of the Cuban Revolution?
● In what ways was Cuba draws into the Cold War conflict?
● What changes took place under the Castro regime?

66. Guerilla warfare

67. Fidel Castro

68. Soviet Union

69. Bay of Pigs

70. Nuclear arms race

71. Cuban Missile Crisis

72. Lesson 14: Chile and Argentina

73. Guiding Questions
● What was the purpose of the “dirty wars” in Argentina?
● How has Argentina returned to democracy?
● What characterized the Pinochet regime in Chile?
● How have the governments of Chile and Argentina developed in the second
half of the 2oth century?

74. Salvador Allende

75. Augusto Pinochet

76. Dirty wars

77. Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

78. Falklands War

79. Lesson 13: Struggles with
Democracy in the Late-20th
Century

80. Guiding Questions
● Why did social revolution appeal to so many people in Latin America in the
second half of the 20th century, and what forces opposed it?

81. Military dictatorships and Juntas

82. Civilian rule

83. Lesson 16: Contemporary Issues
Facing Latin America

84. Guiding Questions
● What major political, economic, and socio-cultural trends have shaped
Latin America today?

85. Immigration

86. Democracy

87. Dictatorship

88. Indigenous movements

89. Women’s liberation

90. Globalization