Agrarian Reform Law
In what year was the Agrarian Reform Law passed?
What is 1959?
Which country’s businesses were most affected?
What is the United States?
What major change did Castro introduce to healthcare?
What is free, universal healthcare?
What year was the literacy campaign launched?
What is 1961?
What form of segregation was abolished?
What is racial segregation?
What did the law do to large estates?
What is break them up and redistribute land?
Name one industry that was nationalized.
What are banks, sugar mills, or utilities?
Where were new clinics built to expand access?
What is rural areas?
What was Cuba’s illiteracy rate before the campaign?
What is about 20 percent?
Which group gained more access to education and jobs?
What are Afro-Cubans?
Who benefited most from land redistribution?
What are peasants and cooperatives?
What was the U.S. response to nationalization?
What is the trade embargo?
What reputation did Cuba gain in healthcare?
What is being a model for developing nations?
What was the illiteracy rate after the campaign?
What is under 4 percent?
How did reforms affect women’s participation?
What is they entered the workforce and politics?
What organization oversaw the reform?
What is INRA (National Institute for Agrarian Reform)?
How did nationalization change Cuba’s economy?
What is it centralized under state control?
How did reforms affect infant mortality rates?
What is they decreased significantly?
What type of education became free under Castro?
What is primary through university?
What was the government’s stance on racial equality?
What is promoting full integration?
How did the reform affect Cuba’s wealthy elites?
What is it weakened their power and angered them?
Which foreign power supported Cuba after nationalization?
What is the Soviet Union?
What global role did Cuban doctors later play?
What is serving abroad in medical missions?
How did education reforms spread ideology?
What is by teaching socialist principles?
What challenges remained despite reforms?
What is persistent social prejudice?