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During the Great Depression, Argentina's military leadership sought to revitalize the national economy by sponsoring


A) state-centered, import-substitution industrialization and forcing women to retire from public employment.
B) neoliberal reforms that favored foreign investment and job opportunities for women.
C) new investment in traditional economic sectors like agriculture and cattle-raising.
D) cooperative trade treaties with Latin American countries suffering from the global crisis.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

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IDENTIFICATION -Hipólito Yrigoyen

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IDENTIFICATION -Semana Trágica (Tragic Week)

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The Radicals split apart during the 1920s because


A) one faction wanted an alliance with the Socialists.
B) the military disapproved of party policies.
C) Yrigoyen wanted his son-in-law to succeed him as president.
D) the middle class and oligarchy disagreed over government fiscal policy.

E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

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During the Infamous Decade, the military abolished prostitution because it


A) spread venereal disease and undermined the patriarchal family.
B) increased the competition with urban industry for women workers and boosted wages.
C) depleted the state's scarce revenues to pay for prostitutes' medical care.
D) promoted popular resistance to the military dictatorship.

E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

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IDENTIFICATION -Juan Carlos Onganía

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Argentine women were granted the right to vote and hold office in 1947, largely because


A) Perón's wife, Evita, was a fervent feminist who pressured her husband to support women's equality.
B) they were 45 percent of industrial workers and demanded their political and civil rights.
C) Perón's conservative Catholic government expected women's vote to favor the Church.
D) the U.S. government had pressured Perón to show his commitment to democracy.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Estancieros embraced the Saenz-Peña law because they hoped it would


A) expand the electoral appeal of Radicals.
B) attract new urban political allies by requiring universal male suffrage and a secret ballot.
C) restrict immigration and increase their political power.
D) expand immigration, increase the rural labor supply, reduce wages, and increase profits.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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IDENTIFICATION -Eva Perón

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Juan Perón's return in 1974 brought a new economic policy called the Social Contract that called for


A) higher wages for workers.
B) a wage and price freeze.
C) an end to foreign ownership of Argentine industry.
D) a professionalization of the military.

E) All of the above
F) None of the above

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The Unión Cívica Radical (Radical party) was anything but radical. Outline the history of the Radical party in Argentina. What were its class base and policies and how did these change over time?

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IDENTIFICATION -Juan Perón

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The social origins of the tango lay in the dance


A) adopted by Argentine elites who mimicked the French contradanse.
B) introduced by Italian immigrants fleeing armed conflict and crime in their native country.
C) associated with middle-class urban professionals who disdained elite cultural traditions.
D) first performed by enslaved Africans and later by poor people in bars and brothels.

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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The Great Depression


A) bankrupted Argentina's largest companies and spawned skyrocketing unemployment that hurt women more than men.
B) increased immigration and transformed the nation's ethnic labor force.
C) dramatically reduced women's participation as a share of the national labor force.
D) virtually eliminated women workers in the textile, tobacco, and clothing industries.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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The operating mechanism of the Radical party was


A) a conservative fiscal policy and political stability.
B) a liberal economic policy.
C) patronage for the working class.
D) high tariffs for industrialists.

E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

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