Curriculum - Latin American History

  1. Acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone
  2. The Agency for International Development Is Established
  3. Aimé Césaire
  4. Alamo
  5. Alberto Santos-Dumont
  6. American and Mexican Companies Form Maquiladoras
  7. Amistad Slave Revolt
  8. Amnesty International Exposes Cruelty of Death Penalty
  9. Amnesty International Starts Program to Prevent Torture
  10. Antarctic Survey Team Confirms Ozone Depletion
  11. Anthropologists Claim That Ecuadorian Pottery Shows Transpacific Contact in 3000 b.c.e.
  12. Antonio José de Sucre
  13. Antonio López de Santa Anna
  14. Archaic Indians Adapt to Warmer Climates
  15. Argentina Conducts “Dirty War” Against Leftists
  16. Argentine Dirty War
  17. Argentine Leaders Are Convicted of Human Rights Violations
  18. Arias Sánchez Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
  19. Astronomers Detect Planets Orbiting Another Star
  20. Augusto César Sandino
  21. Aztec Empire
  22. Baron Constantine
  23. Bartolomé de Las Casas Publishes Brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies
  24. Battle of Ayacucho
  25. Battle of Buena Vista
  26. Battle of Cerro Gordo
  27. Battle of Falkland Islands
  28. Battle of Goose Green
  29. Battle of Monterrey
  30. Battle of San Jacinto
  31. Battle of San Juan/El Caney
  32. Bay of Pigs Invasion
  33. Benito Juárez
  34. Bernardo Alberto Houssay
  35. Bernardo O’Higgins
  36. Bingham Discovers an Inca City in the Peruvian Jungle
  37. Birth Control Pills Are Tested in Puerto Rico
  38. Borges’ Ficciones Transcends Traditional Realism
  39. Borlaug Begins Work on High-Yield Wheat
  40. Bourlag Receives the Nobel Prize for Work on World Hunger
  41. Bracero Program
  42. Brazil Begins Era of Intense Repression
  43. Brazilian Anti-Republican Uprisings
  44. Brazilian Antiregency Uprisings
  45. Brazilian Police Massacre Rio Slum Dwellers
  46. Brazilian Police Massacre Slum Dwellers
  47. Brazilian President Announces Plans to Protect Rain Forests
  48. Brazil’s Ailing Economy Gets $41.5 Billion in International Aid
  49. British Colonial Wars
  50. Burr’s Conspiracy