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- Haiti - The Republic of Haiti is a Caribbean country which along with the Dominican Republic, occupy the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antillean archipelago. The total area of Haiti is 27,750 square kilometers (10,714 sq. mi) and its capital is Port-au-Prince. Haitian Creole and French are the official languages.
- Handal, Schafik Jorge - October 14, 1930 to January 24, 2006. He was a Salvadoran revolutionary. Born in Usulután, he was the son of Palestinian Arab immigrants. Between 1973 and 1994, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of El Salvador. As a guerrilla leader in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was a member of the group that brought five opposition forces together to found the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
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- Hidalgo de Costilla, Miguel - Known as the "Padre de la Patria" in Mexico, he was the insurgent priest that made the Grito de Dolores that started the insurgency against Spanish colonial domination in Mexico.
- Hippy - Young people involved in an unorganized effort to drop out of the established social order during the 1960s. The term became popular in the United States in the mid-1960's when many of these youth adopted the hippy life-style that came from the middle and upper class segment of American society.
- Hirohito, Emperor - 124th emperor of Japan, who succeed to the throne in 1926 after a period of five years as regent. He was the emperor during WWII, during which time Japan had imperialist plans for Asia, and formed part of the Axis powers.
- Hiroshima - One of the two industrial cities in Japan (the other was Nagasaki) where the first military use of atomic bomb was used by the United States against the Japanese at the end of WWII on August 6, 1945. At least 140,000 people were killed.
- Hispanic - A name invented in the 1960s by the U.S. government to describe la raza, while at the time deny us recognition of our indigenous heritage. When it us used usually it is to deny that a person is from Mexico or Latin America, and to just claim they are "spanish". Can also mean "vendido" (sell-out).
- Hispano - An identifier used primarily in New Mexico. Not to be confused with "Hispanic" which has a different history and political significance.
- Historical Materialism - This is the theoretical tool of dialectical materialism as it is applied to the history of humanity, evolution, and the development of colonialism, capitalism, imperialism, and neoliberalism.
- History - The study of the past (people, things, events, ideas, etc.). Without understanding "history", you can't understand the present or plan for the future.
- Hitler, Adolph - 1889 - 1945, maniacal fascist leader of the German Nazi party and, from 1933 until his death, he was the leader of Germany. He rose up from the bottom of German society and conquered most of Europe. Riding on a wave of European fascism after WWI, he was at first favored by the rich and powerful classes in Germany because he promised to crush the communists. After he took power, he built a fascist regime called the Third Reich.
- Holocaust - Usually used to refer to the mass killing of 6 million European Jews by the Nazis during WWII.
- Honduras - A republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea. Its size is just over 112,000 kilometers with an estimated population of almost 8,000,000. Its capital is Tegucigalpa.
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA, 1938–1975).
- Huerta, Dolores - A leader of the United Farmworkers (UFW) that fought for the rights of farmworkers in the U.S.
- Huerta, Victoriano - Former general under Porfirio Díaz, he became a military dictator for a year during the Mexican Revolution.
- Humanity - This refers to our state of being conscious human beings, capable of understanding and changing our condition in the world.
- Human Resources - This is the actual value that people who live in country have with regards to the economic growth of the country. Population growth, education, health, industrialization, etc. are some factors that increase the human resources of a country.
- Human Rights - Also known as "universal rights", these are rights that are extended to all people regardless of legal status or recognition by a nation-state. These rights were first brought together after WWII within the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" within the United Nations.
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