Emergence of Power
This 1952 event ended constitutional governance in Cuba.
What is Batista's coup?
This president was removed by Castro in 1959 after disagreements.
Who was Manuel Urrutia?
This 1961 invasion attempt failed and strengthened Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
These laws redistributed land beginning in 1959.
What are the Agrarian Reform Laws?
Cuba launched its nationwide literacy campaign in this year.
What was 1961?
This failed 1953 attack later became a powerful propaganda symbol for Castro.
What is the Moncada Barracks attack?
This organization monitored neighborhoods for dissent.
What was Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs)?
This 1962 crisis brought the world close to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The 1990s economic crisis in Cuba is known as this.
What is The Special Period?
One measurable success of Cuban healthcare reform. (Name one)
What are Improved life expectancy or reduced infant mortality?
These factors explain why the Sierra Maestra campaign was more successful than Batista’s counteroffensive. (Name any one of them)
What are guerrilla warfare, peasant support, superior morale, Batista’s army weaknesses?
This US-led foreign policy fiasco proved politically beneficial to Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
These actions taken in 1959 by Castro both strained US-Cuban relations and led to sanctions and an embargo.
What is nationalization/confiscation of US property?
The Special Period revealed this structural weakness of Cuba's economy.
What is dependence on Soviet trade?
These types of reforms were politically significant for Castro, integrating state ideology with expanded state influence.
What is education?
These were the structural weaknesses of Batista’s regime that made revolution possible. (Name any one of them)
What are corruption, repression, inequality, lack of legitimacy, or military demoralization?
This was the purpose of merging revolutionary groups into ORI and later PURS.
What is to establish one-party control and reduce fragmentation?
These were examples of the type of support Cuba received from the Soviet Union after 1960. (name one)
What are trade dependence, sugar exports, and subsidies?
Cuba adapted agriculturally during the Special Period using these methods (Name any one of them).
What are urban farming, organic methods, or rationing?
These reforms increased legitimacy for Castro's regime, improved equality, and built a support base amongst Cuba's lower classes.
What are social policies?
This was the name of Batista’s major 1958 military offensive intended to crush Castro’s forces in the Sierra Maestra.
What is Operation Verano?
This was the official name of the unified political organization formed in 1961 before being renamed in 1962.
What is the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI)?
This 1996 U.S. law strengthened and codified the economic embargo against Cuba.
What is the Helms-Burton Act?
Cuba joined this organization in 1972, formalizing its integration into the Soviet economic bloc.
What is COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)?
This political development, occurring in 1989-1991, resulted in Cuba entering what Castro called the "Special Period in Time of Peace".
What is the collapse (or fall) of the Soviet Union?