• Women played a role in the Nicaraguan Revolution. Those who joined the Sandinista movement in the revolutionary Nicaragua essentially fought a battle:...
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  • War Women in the Vietnam War Role of women in the Nicaraguan Revolution Women in the Soviet–Afghan War Women in the Iran–Iraq War Women in the war in Donbas...
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    Contras (redirect from Nicaraguan contras)
    following the Nicaraguan Revolution. Among the separate contra groups, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN) emerged as the largest by far. In 1987, virtually...
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    The Catholic Church in Nicaragua is the Nicaraguan part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, curia in Rome, and...
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  • that of Nicaraguan women. Additionally, women criticized AMNLAE leadership for their assumption that they knew what was best for all Nicaraguan women without...
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  • in the process of the Revolution," Ser madre en Nicaragua (Being a Mother in Nicaragua) 22. The Nicaraguan Institute for Women became independent in 2007...
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    Dora María Téllez (category People of the Nicaraguan Revolution)
    1955) is a Nicaraguan historian known for her involvement in the Nicaraguan Revolution. As a young university medical student in León in the 1970s, Téllez...
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    led the Nicaraguan resistance against the United States occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s. The FSLN overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle in the 1979...
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    Mónica Baltodano (category People of the Nicaraguan Revolution)
    commander of the guerrilla revolutionary group known as the Sandinista National Liberation Front during the Nicaraguan Revolution. She worked in the movement...
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  • The Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign (Spanish: Cruzada Nacional de Alfabetización, CNA) was a campaign launched in 1980 by the Sandinista government in order...
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    Carlos Fonseca (category People of the Nicaraguan Revolution)
    1936 – 8 November 1976) was a Nicaraguan professor, politician, writer and revolutionary who was one of the founders of the Sandinista National Liberation...
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    of women on the revolution, most of the academic work produced focuses on the effect of the revolution on women rather than the role of Iranian women...
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    crisis, including the Nicaraguan Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and the Contra War[broken anchor] of the 1980s. The mixture of cultural traditions has...
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    Nora Astorga (category People of the Nicaraguan Revolution)
    1988) was a Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter in the Nicaraguan Revolution, a lawyer, politician, judge and the Nicaraguan ambassador to the United Nations...
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    The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the...
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  • The Nicaraguan National Guard (Spanish: Guardia Nacional, otherwise known as la Guardia) was a militia and a gendarmerie created in 1925 during the occupation...
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  • The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China...
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    the Big Stick: Nicaragua and the United States Since 1848. South End Press, 1986. Booth, John A. The End And The Beginning: The Nicaraguan Revolution...
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    Violeta Chamorro (category People of the Nicaraguan Revolution)
    Nicaraguan former politician who served as the 55th President of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She was the first and, to date, only woman to hold the position...
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    slaves fought in the American Revolution. The democratic ideals of the Revolution inspired changes in the roles of women. Patriot women married to Loyalists...
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  • and tourism in Nicaragua grew especially strongly, in part thanks to the perception of Nicaragua as a safe country to visit. The Nicaraguan general election...
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    This is a list of Nicaraguans and people of Nicaraguan ethnicity: Omar D'León (1928–2022), painter and poet. Franck de Las Mercedes (born 1972), painter...
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    Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923...
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  • Edén Pastora (category People of the Nicaraguan Revolution)
    Nicaraguan politician and guerrilla who ran for president as the candidate of the Alternative for Change (AC) party in the 2006 general elections. In...
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    Since the Industrial Revolution, participation of women in the workforce outside the home has increased in industrialized nations, with particularly large...
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    freedom of religion since 1939, but the Catholic Church has retained a special status in Nicaraguan society. When Nicaraguans speak of "the church",...
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  • Leticia Herrera Sánchez (category 21st-century Nicaraguan women writers)
    (born 11 March 1949) is a Nicaraguan politician and former guerrilla leader. She was one of the first women commanders of the Sandinista National Liberation...
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    Rosario Murillo (category People of the Nicaraguan Revolution)
    a Nicaraguan politician and poet who is the Vice President of Nicaragua, the country's second highest office, since January 2017 and First Lady of Nicaragua...
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  • Victoria Schultz (category Finnish women photographers)
    the Nicaraguan Revolution and made the film, Women In Arms, which showed women's powerful and important roles in this uprising. The general strike in...
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    one of the few women writers of the Revolution; her Cartucho (1931) is an account of the Revolution in northern Mexico, emphasizing the role of Villistas...
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