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Chapter 17-2: Relations with Latin America

Key Terms/ People:
 * Emiliano Chamorro: General in 1925 who overthrew the government, sparking a bitter civil war
 * Henry Stimson: alongtime public official, to negotiate a peace treaty in May 1927
 * Augusto Cesar Sandino: a general who opposed Charmorro refused to accept Stimson's proposal
 * Adolfo Diaz: Chamorro's Successor
 * Anastasio Somoza: general who ordered Sandino's assassination
 * Lazaro Cardenas: Mexico's president
 * Nationalize: assert Government control over, the country's oil industry
 * Josephus Daniels: U.S Ambassador to Mexico, argued for a compromise between the Mexican Government and the oil Companies
 * Caudillos: took power in many Latin american countries

Key Events: Intervention in Nicaragua A change in Policy
 * 1926, President Coolidge ordered in the U.S
 * Sandino hoped to rid Nacaragua of the Americans, whom he viewed as invaders
 * Emiliano Chamorro: General in 1925 who overthrew the government, sparking a bitter civil war
 * Henry Stimson: alongtime public official, to negotiate a peace treaty in May 1927
 * Augusto Cesar Sandino: a general who opposed Charmorro refused to accept Stimson's proposal
 * Adolfo Diaz: Chamorro's Successor
 * Anastasio Somoza: general who ordered Sandino's assassination
 * Lazaro Cardenas: Mexico's president
 * Nationalize: assert Government control over, the country's oil industry
 * Josephus Daniels: U.S Ambassador to Mexico, argued for a compromise between the Mexican Government and the oil Companies
 * Caudillos: took power in many Latin american countries