Origins of instability in Central America

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  1. 2. This nation has its own civil war in the 1980’s, between right wing US backed Gov’t and Marxist guerillas
  2. 4. US backed this group to take out Nicaraguan Sandanista government
  3. 5. Large landowner in Guatemala, the American ____ Company
  4. 7. Someone that follows the teaching of Karl Marx and communist philosophies
  5. 8. The US pushed to deregulate the ____trade, which hurt small farmers in CA
  6. 10. The US providing funding, arms and ______ training for nations threatened with communist rebels
  7. 13. US called Guatemala’s president a ___to Democracy
  8. 16. The Salvadoran ___populaiton in the US increased from 94,000 to 465,000 during the 1980’s
  9. 17. The ___War was a struggle between the US and the Soviet Union over the spread of communism
  10. 19. In the 1990’s US deported Salvadorans with a ___record, leading to increased gang violence in the country
  11. 21. Between 1980 and the present, the CA population in America grew from 300,000 to three ______
  12. 23. Nicaraguan rebels that US wanted to remove from government
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  1. 1. Villages of these indiginous people were destroyed during the Guatemalan Civil War
  2. 3. US used this nation to fight Sandinistas in Nicaragua
  3. 6. CA country was one of the few that operated as a Democracy after WWII
  4. 9. Guatemala's President sought to redistribute ____more fairly
  5. 11. Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras are known as the “Northern ____”
  6. 12. El Salvador’s Archbishop who wrote a letter to US President Carter about brutality of his country's military
  7. 14. Between 1947-1991 the US intervened to stop the spread of _______
  8. 15. US agency that lead an overthrow of the elected leader of Guatemala
  9. 18. The US gave $_____ in aide to the Salvadoran government to crush the rebels
  10. 20. In Guatemala, 75% of the arable ___ was controlled by 2% of the population
  11. 21. Arhcbishop Romero was assassinated while celbrating ___ (Catholic Sunday service)
  12. 22. Guatemala had a ___War for 36 years after CIA killed it’s president
  13. 24. Seeking freedom in the US due to poltical or street violence