March 9- March - March 16 Flashcards

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Context for populism

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  • Latin American populism mostly urban
  • Height 20s-60s
  • Accompanies processes of industrialization and urbanization
  • Involve middle class in politics
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What is populism

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  • Favors common man in contrast with elite
  • Appeals to emotions of masses
  • Collective consciousness
  • Contrast with status quo
  • Sometimes democratic or authoritarian
  • Charismatic leaders
  • Representation
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Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra

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-Give me balcony and I will become president

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4
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19th vs 20th century populism

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  • Emerged from activist workign class and socialist movements
  • Drew heavily on trade unions for rhetoric
  • Used state apparatuses to meet demands of movements
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Juan Domingo Peron

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  • emerged out of political system without middle class (Hipolito Yrigoyen)- many uprisings
  • 2 presidential terms (50s then 70s before death)
  • Military officer with large industrial working class base, nationalist
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Edwin williamson

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-Quote about intense nationalism which drew from across political spectrum, causing him to have policy incoherence and lack of unity

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Perons Agenda and pillars

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  • Attack free trade export economy, promote independence
  • Control military by hand selecting leadership
  • Controling unions
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Eva peron

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  • Populist leader
  • Humble background, cult following, actress
  • Followers descamisados
  • Madonna
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9
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Santa Evita

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  • Tomas Eloy martinez, 1995

- Body of eva became like legend while juan decayed

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Peronist party populism

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  • Community
  • New argentina
  • Public relations- parades, demonstrations, sports
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Decline of Peron

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  • Projects lacked stability
  • Made hefty promises, lack of follow through
  • unable to court elite
  • energy and food shortages could not sustain growth
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Vargas

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  • Brazilian populist
  • Emerged from Rio grande do sul
  • Nationalization projects (mostly urban) like oil rail, electric, steel
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Vargas and state terror

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  • Suppression of social forces that disagreed with him- communists, military, urbanites, labor movement
  • Suspended civil rights, jailed people
  • Estado Novo- new state
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Downfall of Vargas

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  • Division in congress
  • Inflation
  • More international business
  • Corruption
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Neo populism

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  • Zealous leaders
  • Abuses of power
  • Personalistic, charismatic
  • Collective communication (chavez television program)
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16
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Context of Spanish Civil war

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  • Spanish american war ends spanish empire
  • Generation of 98 emerges- intellectuals who wanted liberal change
  • Sense of moral political and social crisis
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17
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Miguel de Unamuno

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  • Gen of 98
  • Suffering makes us people
  • Life is doubt
  • Fight destiny
  • Secular
18
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Precurser to civil war

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  • Ideological shift due to defeat
  • American and Japanese victories shunned- still belief of superiority
  • Post ww1 decline of economy and flu
  • Spain economically stagnant
19
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General Miguel Primo de Rivera

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  • Appointed by alfonso XIII
  • Country, religion, monarchy
  • Won in Morocco
  • Challenged by bankruptcy of state
20
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Second Republic

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  • Alfonso leaves country
  • Modernity and social Justice
  • A lot of social reform, autonomy of historic regions
21
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Opposition to republic

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  • Catholic church feared power would diminish
  • Traditional factions (elites, clergy) threatened
  • Thought freethinkers, protestants, atheists
  • Landowners and industrialists
  • Balfour- second republic anti-Spain
22
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Initial leadership of republic

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  • Range of politics of leaders
  • Turn corrupt system into pluralist democracy
  • Zamora succeeded by azana- “spain is no longer catholic”
23
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Challenges to second republic

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  • Recession
  • Opposition from elites
  • Weak state hold on society
  • Not uniform modernization
  • Powerful rural elite
  • Fragmented, divided
24
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Result of challenges to republic

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  • Right wing party CEDA victory
  • Uprising in asturias and catalonia
  • Unrest in countryside
  • Start of civil war
25
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Main issues of civil war

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  • Republicans (rebels) vs nationalists
  • Nationalist- traditional order, church, unity, elites
  • republicans- liberal democracy, pluralism, sovreignty
26
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Bishop of Salamanca

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-Soil of spain bloody conflict between two forces

27
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International involvement

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  • Mussolini and Hitler helped nationalists
  • Soviet union helped republicans
  • US england france non-intervention- crucial to nationalist victory
28
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Divided nation in civil war

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  • Massacres across spain
  • Captured republicans, inc women and children
  • Butterflys tongue
29
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Fredrico Garcia Lorca

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  • Ode to salvador dali

- Death of creativity, etc night

30
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Attack on Spanish Church

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  • Killing priests monks and nuns
  • Churches looted and burned
  • Mummified bodies put on display
31
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Guernica

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  • Picasso painting

- Animals, despair, grey

32
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New world order

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  • US dominance
  • Push for free trade
  • Bretton wood- established plan to rebuild economy
  • Open borders, pegging of US dollar to gold, capital abroad
33
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3 Vital economic institution

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IMF- international monetary fund
IBRD- international bank for reconstruction and development, later world bank
GAtt- general agreement on trade and tariffs, previously ITO

34
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Import Substitution industrialization

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  • UN commission for Latin America (ECLA)
  • Philosophy that trade with LA unfavorable due to low cost of primary good exports and high cost of manufactured imports
  • Commodity prices volatile
  • Recommend replacement of imports with production
  • Focus on economic independence, national needs first
35
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ISI frontrunners

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  • Argentina Brazil Mexico Chile Uruguay
  • Pushed for barriers to trade to curtail imports
  • Subsidized production at home
  • Provided lo credit to expand industry
  • Legislation regarding what percentage of production local
36
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Challenges to ISI

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  • reliance on foreign investment, techonology, markets
  • Channeling wealth to elites
  • Reproducing models of patronage
  • Lack of equitable land distribution for ag growth
37
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Inefficient land management

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  • Landowners often used land for investment, prestige, not able to produce enough food
  • result- poverty + starvation
38
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From Economics to politics

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  • push towards democracy
  • During vargas- fight against facism, allowed to demand rights for selves
  • Focus on pluralism, freedom of speech
39
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Guatemala ISI study

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  • Jorge Ubico- dictatorial regime
  • Faced discontent among working classes
  • US non involvement, Ubico ousted
40
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Juan Jose Arevalo

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  • Educator and author, socialist
  • Inspired by FDR
  • Lots of labor, social reform
  • National production institutie
  • land redistribution
41
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Challenges to Jocobo Arbenz

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Difficult realities of long term reform

  • Extortion and bribes from elites
  • Challenges of distributing land
42
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Glorious victory

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-Diego rivera painting, US involvement, puppet government, banana crops