Post WWII Latin America

Social Change in Latin America 
Population boom and urbanization
	- "villas miserias" and Campesinas

Modernization
	-industrialization starts in 1930s
	-After WWII, still underdeveloped

Argentina (Social Change from the Right)
Ruled by military oligarchy
Peron dictatorship (1946-1955, 1973)
	-enjoyed support of urban workers
	-nationalized industry, transportation
Eva Peron's cult following

Guatemala (Social Change from the Left)
Move toward the left
New constitution in 1940s
New labor code
1952 election of Jacobo Arbenz
Overthrow of Arbenz
1954 rebels joined by Guatemalan army
Military rule re-imposed

Cuba
Batista's Cuba 
Castro comes to power
Castroism outside Cuba 
US response