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- Juan Peron was elected president in 1946
- Appealed to urban workers by promising higher wages
- He promoted economic nationalism
- He nationalized railroads and reduced foreign control
- Eva Peron got donations from rich landowners and gave it to the poor
- She helped women gain the right to vote in 1947
- Peron's government was corrupt and caused bankruptcy in Argentina
- Juan Peron was forced into exile in 1955

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- Argentina raised its interest rate to 40% to protect the peso
- Many citizens have been using dollars instead of pesos and the government wants to stop this
- Argentina is under fire for its slow economic growth and for having the world's highest inflation rate at 25.4%

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- Juan Peron nationalized railroads, reduced foreign control of businesses, and increased workers wages
- These programs increased bankruptcy
- The 1970s through the 1980s was the lost decade
- Foreign debt exceeded earning power
- Debt increased after oil prices rose

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- 1976 through 1983
- Period of state terrorism in Argentina
- "Operation Condor": Originally planned by the CIA; the goal was to kill people suspected of being left wing activists
- People began "disappearing", including children (being tortured/killed)
- Many of the children who disappeared were believed to have been abducted by the Argentine government

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Map of Argentina in South America

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- Called the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
- Argentine mothers whose children disappeared during the state of terrorism
- They began to march to bring awareness to the human rights violations happening
- This era represents families broken and lives taken away from children