Argentine History and Politics

Conservative Republic, Radicalism and Social Reforms (1880-1945)

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  1. Which political party dominated Argentine national elections during the Conservative Republic from 1880 to 1916?
  2. Which landmark educational statute enacted in 1884 established free, secular, and compulsory primary education?
  3. Which 1890 civic uprising protested economic depression and political corruption, leading to the creation of the Radical Civic Union?
  4. Who founded the Radical Civic Union (UCR) in 1891 and defended the doctrine of revolutionary intransigence?
  5. Which controversial 1902 statute allowed the executive to deport foreign immigrants deemed dangerous to public order?
  6. Who became the first socialist member of parliament in the Americas when elected deputy in 1904?
  7. What was the transformative achievement of the Sáenz Peña Law (Ley 8.871) passed in 1912?
  8. Who was elected president in 1916 in the first clean democratic national election under the Sáenz Peña Law?
  9. Which student movement beginning in 1918 transformed higher education across Latin America?
  10. What position did Argentina maintain during the First World War (1914-1918) under Plaza and Yrigoyen?
  11. Which tragic labor clash occurred in Buenos Aires in January 1919 following a strike at the Vasena metallurgical plant?
  12. What was the 'Patagonia Rebelde' (1920-1921) in the province of Santa Cruz?
  13. Which state-owned petroleum company was founded in 1922 during the presidency of Hipólito Yrigoyen?
  14. Who governed as constitutional president of Argentina during the prosperous period of 1922 to 1928?
  15. Which military coup d'état on 6 September 1930 broke constitutional continuity for the first time in modern Argentine history?
  16. What name is given to the period from 1930 to 1943, marked by systematic electoral fraud and conservative rule?
  17. What was the controversial Roca-Runciman Pact signed between Argentina and Great Britain in 1933?
  18. Who famously denounced the corrupt concessions of the Roca-Runciman Pact in the Argentine Senate in 1935?
  19. Which institution was established in 1935 to regulate the banking system and manage monetary policy?
  20. Which military lodge organized the 4 June 1943 revolution that overthrew President Ramón Castillo?
  21. What government post did Colonel Juan Domingo Perón assume in late 1943 to build ties with the labor movement?
  22. What historic mass demonstration occurred on 17 October 1945 in the Plaza de Mayo?
  23. What was the Estatuto del Peón de Campo enacted by Perón in October 1944?
  24. Which democratic coalition opposed Juan Domingo Perón in the national elections of February 1946?
  25. Which economic development strategy gained prominence in Argentina following the 1930 global depression?

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