Part 3

Question 1

Augusto Pinochet overthrew what government in what year?

Answer 1

Chile

1973

Question 2

How many years did Pinochet lead a reign of terror?

Answer 2

15

Question 3

How many citizens were murdered because of Pinochet?

Answer 3

85,000

Question 4

In 1989, Pinochet was voted out of office but remained what?

Answer 4

military leader

Question 5

What did Pinochet write? What year?

What did this do?

Answer 5

Amnesty Law of 1978

it exculpates any person who committed crimes between Sept. 11 (1973) - March 10 (1978)

Question 6

Pinochet was arrested where? And by who?

What happened to him?

Answer 6

Arrested in the UK
By a Spanish judge
He died while under house arrest in Chile in 2006

Question 7

Who was Domingo Sarmiento?

Answer 7

Liberal politician and president of Argentine Republic

Question 8

Who was the author of Facundo? What is it?

Answer 8

Domingo Sarmiento

a critique of caudillo politics

Question 9

What did Domingo Sarmiento do?

Answer 9

• increased international trade -launched internal reforms in education and transportation
• tried to imitate Europe and encourage Europeans to come to the country

Question 10

What did Pope Alexander VI do?

Answer 10

made the Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 11

What does FARC stand for?

Answer 11

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia

Question 12

What is FARC?

What did they do? When?

Answer 12

the most powerful insurgent group
convinced the government to demilitarize the area south of Bogota and leave them with power
1999

Question 13

What did Muammar Qaddafi want?

Answer 13

• wanted Libya to be focus of a United Arab World
• banned all alcohol from Libya
• nationalized banks and banned foreign languages
• nationalized oil resources
• set embargoes against Israel

Question 14

What did Muammar Qaddafi write? What is it?

Answer 14

“Green Book”

explains faults of democracy

Question 15

Muammar Qaddafi supplied weapons to…

Answer 15

any rebel Muslim group

Question 16

What did Muammar Qaddafi create? When?

Answer 16

“Great Man-Made River”

the 600 mile long water pipeline (1984)

Question 17

Who was Huophouet Boigny?

What did he do?

Answer 17

First president of the Ivory Coast (very authoritarian)

wasted money on ostentation projects

Question 18

What did Mathieu Kerekou do? When?

Answer 18

Practiced ruthless anti-white sentiment, mass killings, and riots
1972

Question 19

Kerekou publicly denounced…

When?

Answer 19

denounced Marxism and was a new man

1990

Question 20

Kerekou was elected again in ______ and did what?

Answer 20

1996

restored peace, stability, and economic growth

Question 21

Who was Charles Taylor?

What happened to him?

Answer 21

elected Liberian president in 1997 and began reign of terror that ended only when he was forced into exile in 2003.

Question 22

Paul Biya ran for president of ___________ and then what happened?

Answer 22

Cameroon

• in 6 months over 30 new political parties and dozens of independents
• salaries dropped over 70%
• won next election

Question 23

What did Jean-Bedel Bokassa do?

Answer 23

• led military coup
• wanted every member of opposition wiped out
• spent $20 mil to crown himself “Emperor” of the new “Central African Empire”

Question 24

Jean-Bedel Bokassa traveled to _______ for more aid and was impeached and replaced by…

Answer 24

Andre Kolingba

Question 25

What later happened to Jean-Bedel Bokassa?

Answer 25

• was arrested when he returned from Libya

- died in prison in 1996