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- Gámiz Garcia, Arturo - A Mexicano teacher who became a guerrillero and led an assault on military base in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico in 1965.
Garvey, Marcus - 17 August 1887 to 10 June 1940. He was a publisher, journalist, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) which was largest black organization ever created.
- Gender - The "wide set of characteristics that are seen to distinguish between male and female".
- Genocide - The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- German Reunification - After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1993 Germany was reunified between East and West.
- Geronimo - June 16, 1829 to February 17, 1909. An important indigenous leader of the Chiricahua Apache who led resistance against the sell-out Mexican government and the United States, both who had advanced their aggressive expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars.
- Glasnost - Term referring to the Soviet capitulation to capitalism signaling the end of the Eastern European Socialism.
- Ghana - A republic in West Africa. Population of 13,800,000; 91,843 sq. miles. Capital: Accra. One of Africa's greatest leaders was from Ghana - Kwame Nkrumah.
- Gonzales, Rodolfo "Corky" - Chicano leader from Denver, Colorado. Fought for Chicano Mexicano liberation during the 1960s and 70s.
- Gorbachev, Mikhail - A hero in the United States, he directed the capitulation of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
- Las Gorras Blancas - An "underground/secret" raza organization in Nuevo México, that during the years 1880 to 1900 fought against the racist whites who where stealing our lands.
- Government - A form of organization that has authority over a nation. This is different from a state, which is a concept, more than a thing. Government regulation is one important form of authority that government assumes.
- Great Depression - The name given to the economic crisis and period of decline in business activity within the the U.S. In other countries it had different names, although it started in the U.S., roughly beginning with the stock market crash in October 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930's.
- The Great War - Another name for WWI, people assumed something so violent and terrible could never be repeated, or that another war could take place. Also known as "The War to End All Wars".
- Grito de Dolores - The battle cry of the Mexican War of Independence, uttered late on September 15, 1810 by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Roman Catholic priest from the small town of Dolores, in the current state of Guanajuato.
- Guatemala - A republic in North Central America. Population of 8,990,000; 42,042 square miles. The capital of this republic is Guatemala city. During the early part of the Cold War U.S. imperialism designed a coup d'etat to overthrow the government of Jacobo Arbenz.
- Guerrero, Vicente - .
- Guerrilla - Also known as guerrilla warfare, this is a war in which a small group (guerrillas) take on a much more powerful, and larger enemy. By using guerrilla tactics the smaller force is able to fight effectively, and actual win. In revolutionary struggle, the guerrilla is able to win because the masses of the people support the cause.
- Guevara, Ernesto "Ché" - Latin American guerrilla leader and revolutionary thinker, who attempted to build revolutions throughout South America. Born Ernesto Guevara de la Serna on June 14, 1928 in Rosario, Argentina, he formally adopted the nickname "Ché" in 1959 when he he joined Cuban revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro. This great revolutionary hero was killed (with the support of the CIA) in Bolivia in October of 1967.
- Guillotine - A device for beheading a person, consisting of a heavy blade that drops between two posts serving to guide it's falls. It was made famous during the French Revolution when it was used to take the heads off of monarchs, nobles, and counter-revolutionaries.
- Guinea Buissau - A republic in the coast of Africa. Between Guinea and Senegal, formerly a Portuguese overseas province. Won independence in 1974. 932,000; 13,948 sq. miles. Capital: Bissau.
- Guns and Butter Economy - This is the economic transformation capitalist countries go through when they prepare for war. It is within this economic policy that war becomes profitable.
- Guomindang - The troops of Chiang Kai-Shek that fought against the Chinese communists and when defeated they moved to Taiwan.
- Gutierrez, José Angel - From Texas, he was one of the founders of La Raza Unida Party, and a leader of la raza during the 1960's and 1970's.
- Guyana - Officially the "Cooperative Republic of Guyana" and previously known as British Guiana, is a state on the northern coast of South America. Guyana has been struggling over for 500 years against the Spanish, French, Dutch, and British. Guyana achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966.
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