Cuba
Castro
Geography
Lasting Impacts
Anything Goes
100
Batista staged one of these when he realized his chances of winning the election were small.
What is a coup d'etat?
100
The current leader of Cuba.
Who is Raul Castro?
100
Much of the Amazon River runs through this South American country.
What is Brazil?
100
This major religion in Latin America today was brought by the Spanish and Portugese.
What is Catholicism?
100
This animal brought from the old world to the new world used to be a major form of transportation.
What is a horse?
200
Cuba's government type is this.
What is autocracy?
200
The aging Cuban revolutionary who handed control of the country to his brother.
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
Upper Peru was renamed what after which Latin American freedom fighter.
What is Bolivia and Simon Bolivar.
200
In addition to Catholicism, the Spanish Mission system spread this cultural trait throughout its Empire Latin America.
What is the Spanish language?
200
The Incas controlled most of this coast of South America.
What is the west coast?
300
Cuba's economy is closest to this.
What is command?
300
Castro rallied defense forces and squashed this would-be invasion.
What was the Bay of Pigs?
300
The island of Hispaniola is home to these two countries.
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
300
This revolutionary has many statues and a holiday in his honor because of his contributions to liberating Latin America.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
300
Because of free education, Cuba has a high one of these.
What is literacy rate?
400
Cuba formed an alliance with this county that was an "enemy" of the United States at the time.
What is the Soviet Union?
400
These were the people the US trained and armed to tray and take Cuba back from Castro.
Who were Cuban exiles?
400
Many Cubans who attempt to leave Cuba try to make it to this US city.
What is Miami?
400
Because relations between the US and Cuba were terminated, the US put this trade policy into place.
What is an embargo?
400
This 1962 meltdown in Cuban and US relations almost resulted in nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
The US broke relations with Cuba after this big event.
What was the Cuban Revolution?
500
Two good things Castro has done for Cuba.
What is free education and healthcare.
500
This area in the southern region of Mexico is the home of many poor farmers that the Zapatistas want to help.
What is Chiapas?
500
There are many people of mixed ancestry in Latin America because of this.
What is the slave trade?
500
The was the major crop grown in the Caribbean islands.
What is sugar cane?
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