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Fidel Castro
Economy
100
The basis of Cuba's single-product economy from the 1600's to the 1800's.
What is sugar cane?
100
Caribbeans of mixed Africa and European ancestry
Who are the mulattos?
100
Fidel Castro promised there would be no more of these leaders, then he became one himself.
What is a dictator?
100
The economies of most Caribbean islands were based on growing this:
What is sugar cane?
200
To create more variety, as in a nation's economy.
What is diversify?
200
the uneducated farmer who led a revolt in Guatemala in 1837.
Who is Rafael Carrera?
200
At first, Fidel Castro improved the lives of Cubans by providing this:
What is education? or What is health care?
200
Farmers in Central America grew this:
What is coffee? or What are bananas?
300
A system in which the government controls a nation's economy.
What is communism?
300
The Guatemalan president whose government was overturned by the United States in 1954.
Who is Jacob Arbenz Guzman?
300
Fidel Castro became a dictator himself after siding with this communist country during the cold war.
What is the Soviet Union?
300
If prices of coffee or bananas fell, so did farmers':
What is income?
400
Central Americans of mixed Native American and European ancestry.
Who are ladinos?
400
The person who led a revolution in Cuba in the 1950's.
Who is Fidel Castro?
400
Fidel Castro's critics were imprisoned, causing hundreds of thousands of Cubans to flee to this place:
What is the United States?
400
On the good side, Fidel Castro was a good leader because he did what for the cubans:
What is (correct answer up to Mr. Keelan)
500
The absolute ruler of a country, who uses force and fear to keep himself and his friends in authority, and can effectively make laws all by himself.
What is a dictator?
500
The leader of Cuba's fight for independence in 1895.
Who is Jose Marti?
500
The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1980's led to huge economic problems in this country:
What is Cuba?
500
On the rough side, Fidel Castro was a bad leader because he did what to the Cubans:
What is (answer is up to Mr. Keelan)