Vocab
This is the type of government in Cuba under Castro.
What is Communist/Socialist?
This person was the first European explorer to visit Cuba.
Who is Columbus?
This Communist leader became the dictator of Cuba for more than 4 decades.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This country was the original colonizer of Cuba.
What is Spain?
The term for a person or thing who originally lived in an area prior to the arrival of others.
What is native or indigenous?
The name for the standoff between the US and USSR in which there were nuclear missiles in Cuba pointed at the US?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who is Fidel Castro?
This is the crop that was the number one export in Cuba for much of its history.
What is sugar?
The term for a sudden and forceful overthrow of an existing government.
What is a coup?
This was the unsuccessful attempt organized by the US to overthrow Fidel Castro and the Cuban Government in 1962.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This group of indigenous people lived in Cuba and Hispaniola prior to European arrival and still live in Cuba today.
Who are the Tainos?
The lack of this caused original explorers to bypass Cuba in search of it in other places.
What is gold?
This is a term that refers to the pride and sense of identity one has in regard to its country/nation.
What is nationalism?
The name of the mass emigration of people from Cuba to escape Cuba's Communist Dictatorship.
What is the Mariel Boatlift?
Who is John F Kennedy?
This amendment was created between the US and Cuba when they gained independence. It granted control/influence of much of Cuba's economy.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This term refers to an economic system in which private citizens own the land, resources and means of production in a country and use it to make profit. It is controlled by market forces such as supply and demand.
What is capitalism?
This is the name for the date/movement in which 150 students and young radicals (including Castro) attacked an army barracks-- the students were easily defeated.
What is the 26th of July Movement?
This doctor and friend of Fidel Castro came from Argentina and was a supporter/leader of the Cuban Revolution.
Who is Ernesto "Che" Guevara?
This Soviet leader had a tumultuous relationship with Castro. He invited Castro to Moscow to mend relations following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?