Exercises on the Sandinista Revolution

The Sandinista Revolution took place in 1979 and lasted until 1990, when the Sandinistas were removed from power after being defeated in the presidential election. The Sandinistas fought a dictatorship (of the Somozas) that ruled the country for more than 40 years. In which Central American country did the Sandinista Revolution take place?

a) Guatemala

b) Honduras

c) Nicaragua

d) El Salvador

e) Costa Rica

The Sandinistas emerged around Augusto César Sandino, a guerrilla who fought against foreign intervention in Nicaragua between the 1920s and 1930s. The Sandinista guerrillas were intensely persecuted when the Somoza seized power in the country – Sandino himself was murdered during this persecution. Sandino's fight against foreign intervention was against:

a) United States

b) England

c) France

d) Mexico

e) Honduras

During the 1950s, the existing guerrillas in Nicaragua gained strength and committed themselves to fighting the Somoza dictatorship, installed in the country since the 1930s. The guerrillas Nicaraguans were inspired by another guerrilla movement that, in the 1950s, fought in a country marked by American influence and against a dictatorship. This inspiration came from which movement?

a) Mexican Revolution

b) Cuban Revolution

c) Chinese Revolution

d) Cambodian Civil War

e) Russian Revolution

The Sandinistas seized power in Nicaragua in 1979 by taking the country's capital and forcing the Somozas to leave the nation. Once in power, a counterrevolutionary movement was formed in the country that fought against the Sandinistas and was supported by the United States, at the time chaired by Ronald Reagan. What is the name of the Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary movement:

a) Alianza Republicana Nacionalista

b) Patria y Libertad

c) Cons

d) Death to Secuestradores

e) Restauración Nacional

LETTER C

The Sandinista Revolution took place in Nicaragua, a Central American country that has a history marked by foreign intervention and was under the dictatorial rule of the Somoza family since the 1930s.

LETER A

Nicaragua's history was marked by the intervention of the United States, which was responsible for interventions in several Central American nations (including the Caribbean). US interventions in Central America were the result of the Monroe Doctrine, a doctrine that emerged in the 1820s that evolved into US imperialist positions in Latin America throughout the 19th century. In the 1920s, for example, there were American troops (the marines ) installed in Nicaraguan territory.

LETER B

The guerrilla movement that emerged in the 1950s and inspired the guerrillas of Nicaragua was the Cuban Revolution. The Cuban guerrillas, led by Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara, fought at that time against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Cuban guerrillas took power in their country on January 1, 1959 and became a symbol of popular struggle in Latin America.

LETTER C

Nicaragua's counterrevolutionary guerrillas fought against the Sandinistas and the revolution they led. They acted by promoting terrorist attacks in Nicaragua as a way of destabilizing the government. They were formed from the military and financial support provided by the CIA during the Ronald Reagan administration.