Cuba/Fidel Castro

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Cuba was a former colony.

1902

Cuba gained independence in .

Platt Amendment

Claim that the U.S. has the authority to intervene in Cuban affairs. It was included in the Cuban Constitution.

Jose Marti

An anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, pro-labor revolutionary poet who founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party.

Havana

The capital of Cuba.

Fulgencio Batista

Leader of Cuba that Castro helped overthrow

Raul Castro

Who is Fidel Castro's brother?

Moncada Barracks

Fidel Castro and his brother led an attack on this barracks.

"History will absolve me"

The famous quote Fidel said during his trial.

July 26th Movement

The name of Fidel Castro's movement.

Che Guevara

Fidel Castro's right hand man, an Argentine doctor, who he met in Mexico?

Granma

The old motor yacht that took Fidel and his comrades from Mexico to Cuba?

Sierra Maestra

Fidel and 17 others were forced to find refuge in this south-eastern mountain range.

Guerrilla Warfare

Type of fighting carried out by Castro's forces.

Fidelistas

The close group of early Castro supporters was called.

Radio Rebelde

The illegal radio station used by Castro and the rebels.

Eisenhower

The president of the United States when Castro takes power?

Nationalize

What did Castro do to the U.S. refiners when they refused to refine the Soviet oil?

JFK

Who is the president of the United States that authorizes the invasion of Cuba by CIA trained exiles.

Bay of Pigs

The invasion becomes an incident known as?

False

Blacks enjoy equal and proportional representation with whites in Cuba.

Collapse of the Soviet Union

What happened that led to the 'Special Period in Time of Peace'.

Castroism or Fidelismo

The idea that the Cuban Revolution is largely based on the teachings and principles of Fidel Castro.

George W. Bush

Who placed Cuba in the "axis of evil" list?

Torricelli Act (Cuban Democracy Act)

Laws tightened US economic sanctions against Cuba and sought actively to 'assist' in the creation of the USA's form of democracy in Cuba. (last ditch effort)

Karl Marx

The father of communism.

the Communist Manifesto

He wrote __ with Friedrich Engels.

Nikita Krushchev

The Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Blockade

JFK takes what action to prevent more missiles from reaching Cuba.

Turkey

Soviets remove missiles from Cuba and America removes missile from __.

Operation Mongoose

The CIA tries to assassinate Fidel Castro- undermine his regime.

Florida

There is a large Cuban exile population in this American state.

Che's first stop after Cuba

Congo

Castro's slogan

"Fatherland or Death. We will triumph."

Castro's first title

Prime Minister

Mariel Boatlift

1980 mass migration of people from Cuba to the U.S.

Pedro Pan

• about 14,000 children and youth brought over to America from Cuba by Catholic Church and CIA

Angola

Castro choose to help Marxists in this nation rather than seek reapproachment with the US

Ubre Blanca

Castro's famous dairy cow

Committees for the Defense of the Revolution

Set up in 1960 in every workplace, block and residential building. They organized some social projects, but mainly they keep an eye on their neighbors and report "counter-revolutionary activity".

1/3 of all Cubans

By 1963, this amount of Cubans were registered in a CDR

Matos

Jailed by Castro for opposing his new vision

Moncada Barracks Attack

July 26, 1953

Bolivia

Where Che died

Mexico

Where Castro met Che

10 million tons

Castro's goal in his campaign in 1970- similar to Battle of Wheat (Mussolini)