1) What was the Mexican Porfiriato? What were the causes and consequences of its rise and decline?
2) What particular form did corporatism assume in Mexico? What were the causes and consequences of its rise and decline?
3) What particular form did corporatism assume in Brazil? What were the causes and consequences of its rise and decline?
4) What was the significance of the military dictatorship in Brazil? What were the causes and consequences of its rise and decline?
5) What particular form did corporatism assume in Argentina? What were the causes and consequences of its rise and decline?
6) What particular form did corporatism assume in Chile? What were the causes and consequences of its rise and decline?
7) What was the significance of the military dictatorship in Chile? What were the causes and consequences of its rise and decline?
8) What was the significance of the Cuban Revolution (1956–1959)? What were its causes and consequences (to 1990)?
9) What were the chief characteristics of the military dictatorships in Brazil and Chile, and what were the main consequences of the rise and decline of these regimes for each country, both generally and with special regard to the particular forms of corporatism that each of these regimes had inherited at the beginning of their rules?
10) What were the chief characteristics of the military dictatorships in Argentina and Chile, and what were the main consequences of the rise and decline of these regimes for each country, both generally and with special regard to the particular forms of corporatism that each of these regimes had inherited at the beginning of their rules?