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This revolutionary leader became Cuba's prime minister in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This product made up 80% or more of Cuba's exports.
What is sugar?
This type of warfare, using small groups of fighters and surprise attacks, was used by Castro's rebels against Batista's forces.
What is guerrilla warfare?
Castro's government increasingly restricted freedom of speech, political opposition, and independent media. These are characteristics of what type of government?
What is an authoritarian government?
More than half of Cuba's sugar exports went to the United States.
What is True?
This authoriatrian leader was overthrown during the Cuban revolution.
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
Before the 1959 Revolution, Cuba was one of this country's strongest allies.
What is the United States?
This term describes the sudden seizure of political power, often by military force, which is how Batista took control of Cuba in 1952
What is a coup?
The political ideology associated with Castro's governement.
What is Communism?
Historians argue that the sugar quota was the only cause of the Cuban Revolution.
What is false?
They identify it as one contributing factor, most historians emphasize political and military causes.
This leader led the July 26th Movement
Who is Fidel Castro?
This U.S. policy limited the quantity of sugar Cuba and other suppliers could sell in the U.S. sugar market.
What is sugar Quotas?
This term describes a system where land is divided into large estates owned by a small number of landowners.
What is latifundismo?
Castro's government became closely allied with this communist superpower.
What is the Soviet Union?
The 1956 U.S. sugar quota changes gave Cuba more access to the U.S. sugar market.
What is False?
The changes favored U.S. domestic producers and other foreign suppliers at Cuba’s expense.
This Argentine-born revolutionary became one of Fidel Castro’s most famous allies during the Cuban Revolution.
Who is Che Guevara?
Many Cubans opposed Dictator Batista and demanded the restoration of this form of government.
What is Democracy?
This movement, led by Fidel Castro, fought against Batista's government.
What is the July 26th movement?
This term describes the process in which Castro's government took private businesses and property and placed them under government control.
What is nationalism?
Cuba could not easily replace the U.S. as a buyer by selling its sugar to other countries.
What is True?
Cuba's access to other major sugar-consuming countries was also restricted by protectionism.
This U.S. president was in office when the Cuban Revolution succeeded in 1959.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This economic policy uses trade barriers or restrictions to protect a country's domestic industries from foreign competition.
What is Protectionism?
This year, the Cuban Revolution succeeded.
What is 1959?
This failed 1961 invasion attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro’s government.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Cuba was experiencing a severe recession right before Fidel Castro's reign.
What is false?
Cuba was not in a recession before the rise of Castro. The recession came after.