Political History of Cuba
U.S.-backed Cuban presidents with limited power; used to maintain U.S. control.
What are Puppet Presidents (1934-40)?
The speech that Castro made to defend himself in trial. This later became the manifesto of the July 26th movement
What is the “History will absolve me” speech?
A Cold War confrontation over Soviet missiles in Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A law to redistribute land in Cuba; to reduce inequality and improve agricultural productivity.
What is the First Agrarian Reform Act?
Cuban political party founded in the 1930s; advocated for social and economic reforms.
What is the Authentic Party?
The Cuban revolution led by Castro to combat the oppression of Batista’s rule.
What is the 26th July Movement?
U.S. Recognition of Cuban Independence in 1902 that relinquished its occupation authority over Cuba, but still allowed it to intervene.
What is Formal independence (1902)?
A law to regulate housing and land in Cuban cities; to address urban poverty and inequality.
What is the Urban Reform Act?
Cuban political party that sought social reforms; founded in 1940s; opposed corruption and imperialism.
What is the Orthodox Party?
The battle was a decisive victory for the rebels fighting against the regime of General Fulgencio Batista. Within 12 hours of the city's capture, Batista fled Cuba, and Fidel Castro's forces claimed overall victory.
What is the The Battle of Santa Clara, December 1958?
a treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention which permitted extensive U.S. involvement in Cuban international and domestic affairs for the enforcement of Cuban independence.
What is the Platt Amendment (December 1989)?
A national effort to eliminate illiteracy in Cuba; to promote education and social equality
What is the Literacy Campaign?
Cuba's Communist Party.
What is the PSP?
The recognition made by Castro that “All Cubans are equal before the Law.”
What is the Fundamental Law of the Republic?
End of the Spanish-American War, with American victory which gave the US some control over Cuba and their relationship of dependence with Cuba.
Who are the US and Spain (1898)?
A mass organization promoting women’s rights in Cuba; to advance gender equality in post-revolution Cuba.
What is the Federation of Cuban Women, (FMC)?
Revolutionary courts to deal with pre-revolutionary crimes; made to consolidate revolutionary control.
What is "Ordinary Justice"?
An expedition with a yacht that was used to transport 82 fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in November 1956 to overthrow the regime of Fulgencio Batista.
What is the Granma Expedition?
US Imperialism of Cuba through control over the monoculture economy. Invested through puppet states and monoculture trade.
What are the US Investments?
Four Year Plan was a plan developed in the economic planning commission by Che Guevera. The plan supposed that Cuba could quickly deemphasize the importance of sugar cultivation in its economy, and instead become a diverse industrial economy.
What is the 1961 JUCEPLAN?