Rise to Power
The military method used by the revolutionaries to resist Batista from 1956-1958.
What is Guerrilla warfare? (BG1)
The amendment that offered support to Cuba when their independence was threatened.
What is the Platt Amendment 1901/1903? (BG1)
Basic rights that Castro promised his citizens.
What is free access to health care and education? (BG1)
The benefit to Cuba from their relationship with the USSR in 1961.
What is billions of dollars in aid? (BG2)
The number of children that Castro had.
What is 9 children?
Promise that Castro failed to uphold in 1959-1960 that angered the US and Cuban people.
What are elections? (BG2)
The conflict between the Counter revolutionaries (sponsored by the US) and Castro in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion? (BG2)
The ideologies that Castro used and supported in his rise to power.
What is radical Cuban nationalism and communist values, communicated through manifestos? (BG1)
Castro’s second in command for the revolution who was put in charge of the Cuban economy from 1959 to 1962.
Who is Ernesto "Che" Guevara? (BG3)
Name of Castro's propaganda cow used to support the collectivized agricultural movement in the 1980's.
What is Ubre Blanca/White Udder? (BG2)
Castro was successful in Guerrilla warfare for this reason.
What is good organization and strong leadership? (BG1)
The US supported politician who was Cuban head of state in 1934.
Who is Carlos Mendieta? (BG2)
The intended result of the Law of Agrarian Reform in 1959.
What is the redistribution of land and diversification of the economy through agricultural diversification and industrialization? (BG3)
A New York Times journalist who snuck into Castro's forest hideout and wrote an article that gave him much needed publicity in 1957.
Who is Herbert Matthews? (BG1&2)
The amount of milk the cow produced in one day as a symbol supporting agricultural growth (in gallons).
What is over 29 gallons? (BG3)
Name of event in which Castro and his army took over a radio tower to spread propaganda in 1958.
What is Radio Rebelde? (BG1)
Name of the countries that Cuba exported revolution in the 1970's?
What is Angola, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, and Mozambique? (BG2)
The social impacts of the 1976 Constitution (name at least two).
What is equality between women and men, equal pay for equal work, free public education, and free healthcare? (BG3)
The name and relation to Fidel Castro of one of the revolutionaries, appointed defense minister in 1959, deputy prime minister in 1962, and president in 2008.
Who is Raul Castro, Fidel’s Brother? (BG2)
The Guinness World Record that Castro holds.
What is the longest speech to the UN? (4 hours 29 minutes) (BG2)
Castro’s inspiration as seen in his nationalist ideals.
Various Latin and Central American anti-imperialist movements of the 1930’s and 1940’s. (BG1)
The thirteen day standoff that involved three countries and the movement of missiles in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis? (BG2)
Article 41 of the Cuban Constitution of 1976 states this.
What is “All citizens have equal rights and are subject to equal duties”? (BG3)
The reason behind appointing Raul Castro as successor in 1959.
What is telling his supporters that "behind me are others more radical than I"? (BG2&3)
List three of Castor's hobbies as a younger man.
What are spearfishing, cooking, and reading?