MOCK MID-TERM EXAMINATION

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MOCK MID-TERM EXAMINATION

• Political Science 146A
• Winter 2014

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SCOPE WEEKS 1-6

• Videos
• Missing
• Balseros
• Reading
• Smith, Talons, through chapter 12
• Domínguez and Fernández de Castro, chapters 1,
  3, 6-8
• Lectures
• Sessions 1-6, at ltpages.ucsd.edu/phsmithgt

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I. DISCUSSION ITEMS (30 points)
Write short (two- to three-sentence) statements
identifying and explaining the significance of
such items as Roosevelt Corollary José
Martí Alliance for Progress Rafael
Trujillo Charles Horman Organization of
American States Economic Commission for Latin
America (CEPAL) dirty war Truman
Doctrine Lula Salvador Allende Good Neighbor
Policy César Augusto Sandino MERCOSUR Balseros

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II. ESSAY QUESTIONS (70 points)

• Be ready to write essays on such topics as
• Describe the concept of manifest destiny and
  its implications for U.S.-Latin American
  relations.
• Describe and analyze the ideological content of
  Latin American reactions to the rise of U.S.
  power during the so-called imperial era. .
• What were the principal political effects of the
  Cold War within Latin America?
• Describe the short- and long-term effects of
  NAFTA.
• How has Latin America played the geo-economic
  game since the 1990s? Which countries have been
  most successful? Why?
• What have been the impacts on Latin America of
  9/11 and the global war on terror ?