Author Question: The United States firm that dominated the economies and governments in most Central American ... (Read 96 times)

segrsyd · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The United States firm that dominated the economies and governments in most Central American countries in the early 1900s was

a. Kennecott Copper.
b. the United Fruit Company.
c. General Mills.
d. the Dole Corporation.
e. Archer Daniels Midland.

Question 2

In Mexico,

a. the fascistic PRI seized power in 1926.
b. a thirty-year search for commercially successful oil fields ended in failure in 1935.
c. the Crdenas government nationalized the foreign oil companies' holdings and provided millions of acres of land to landless peasants.
d. Diego Rivera invented the transistor in 1936.
e. a devastating famine killed one-quarter of the population between 1933 and 1936.