History of Argentina

Question 1

Army general of the National Autonomist Party who was a major force in Argentina in the 1880s.

Answer 1

Julio Roca

Question 2

Project by Julio Roca which displaced numerous indigenous Argentines in the south.

Answer 2

Conquest of the Desert.

Question 3

Two sides in the long Argentine Civil Wars

Answer 3

Unitarians and Federalists

Question 4

Former Conservative President of Argentina

Answer 4

Mauricio Macri

Question 5

Current Justicialist President of Argentina

Answer 5

Alberto Fernandez

Question 6

1820 major Federalist victory in the Argentine Civil War.

Answer 6

Battle of Cepeda

Question 7

Pink Executive Mansion of the Argentine President based on the mixing of the colors of the Federalists and Unitarians.

Answer 7

Casa Rosada

Question 8

Congress which formalized Argentine Independence

Answer 8

Congress of Tucuman

Question 9

Brutal Argentine Tyrant, Governor of Buenos Aires from the mid 1830s through the early 1850s.

Answer 9

Jose Manuel de Rosas

Question 10

Battle during which Uruguayan Colorados, Brazillians, and Argentine Unitarians under the command of Justo Jose de Urquiza defeated Jose Manuel de Rosas’s government.

Answer 10

Battle of Caseros

Question 11

Successful Revolution that ousted the Spanish Viceroyalty in Argentina

Answer 11

May Revolution

Question 12

First Independent Government of Argentina

Answer 12

Primera Junta

Question 13

Adolf Eichmann’s pseudonym while living in Argentina

Answer 13

Ricardo Klement

Question 14

Massacre following Peron’s return to Argentina during which numerous left wing targets were murdered at an airport.

Answer 14

Ezeiza Massacre.

Question 15

Official Name for the Argentine Dirty War of Videla.

Answer 15

National Reorganization Process.

Question 16

Human Rights Organization Opposing the Dirty War Crimes

Answer 16

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Question 17

First President of Argentina

Answer 17

Bernadino Rivadavia

Question 18

Important Liberal Leader of Argentina during the 1860s

Answer 18

Bartolome Mitre

Question 19

Paramilitary force supporting de Rosas in Argentina

Answer 19

Mazorcas (Corncob)

Question 20

Left Wing Peronist Guerilla Group

Answer 20

Montoneros

Question 21

Peronist Slogan for the cutting of university budgets

Answer 21

Shoes! Yes! Books! No!

Question 22

Name for 13 years (1930 to 1943) of great corruption and voter fraud due to a fascist sympathizing government in Argentina.

Answer 22

Infamous Decade

Question 23

Final leader of the Infamous Decade in Argentina

Answer 23

Ramon Castillo

Question 24

Name for the coup that deposed Peron during the first term

Answer 24

Revolucion LIbertadora

Question 25

Far-right death squad utilized by Juan and Isabel Peron under the second term.

Answer 25

Triple A

Question 26

Leader of the Triple A under Peron known as “The Sorcerer”

Answer 26

Jose Lopez Rega

Question 27

Name given to Peron supporters meaning “shirtless.”

Answer 27

Decamisados.

Question 28

President of Argentina who wrote a critique of de Rosas ‘Facundo’ in exile.

Answer 28

Domingo Sarmiento

Question 29

President of Argentina who ordered the invasion of the Falkalnds.

Answer 29

Leopold Galtieri

Question 30

President of Argentina through WWI who enacted leftist policies through the Radical Civic Union.

Answer 30

Hipolito Yrigoyen

Question 31

Argentine independence war general who became the namesake of a Falklands war cruiser.

Answer 31

Belgrano