Cuban Revolution
Who lead the Cuban revolution?
Fidel Castro
the Cold War was...
sociopolitical, military, and economic conflict between the world’s Western capitalist democracies (i.e., Western Europe and the United States) and its Eastern communist regimes (i.e., the USSR and China) from the end of World War II through 1991
How did latin americans transport the slaves?
by putting them i a ship with not a lot of food and water and with barley any space.
How did finding the new world change the old world?
the old world found new agriculture to take and grow that they've never seen before
Where is Brazil located on a scale of the earth?
Within south america bordering the Atlantic ocean
What kind of governance did Fidel Castro set up?
A unitary governance
globalization means...
Process of interaction and integration among various parts of the world through commercial and cultural exchange
Why did latin america need slaves?
to mine for gold and silver, to harvest sugarcane
How did horses help latin america?
by giving labor for many years to come
What is mexico's #1 export?
oil
What did Castro do to people that opposed him?
He put those people in jail or killed them
Iberian means...
Referring to the nations and cultures of Europe’s Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal
Why were slaves imported to latin america?
to replace the weak indigenous people
Why did the "old world" bring items to the new world?
to make themselves feel at home
What is Cuba's climate?
Warm-semi tropical
What did Fidel Castro do to get on the US' "nerves" ?
Castro started siding with the Soviet Union
Who was Batista, Fulgencio
former president and later dictator of Cuba prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution
How were slaves used?
to build industries and and to raise GDP
How did latin america get the languages they have?
By European (Portuguese) and Spanish settlers came in and made the language their own.
Who are Brazil's top trading partners?
Argentina & the US
Why was the Cuban missile crisis such a big deal?
Cuba was so close to the US stored with missiles that could wipe out a lot of the US
hacienda means...
Spanish agricultural plantations throughout Latin America during the colonial period
Slaves weren't just brought places for free what were they traded for?
manufactured goods and crops/agriculture
How did the religion come to be in latin america?
most settlers were catholic that colonized latin america so that is how latin america's religion can to be
Why did mexico have so much pollution all the time?
Pollution can down from america (and pollution from their country) were trapped by the large mountain ranges