Group 5 Aims and Results of Policies, 4/18

Multiple Select

What was there specific emphasis on for women’s participation in Castro’s 20th century Cuba?

• Labor

• Politics

• Business

• Artistic expression

Multiple Choice

What was NOT a result of Che’s plan to diversify the economy?

• Due to the US embargo, US refused to supply the raw materials and machinery necessary to upstart the production of diverse consumer goods.

• 1963: industrial production falls by 1.5% (as opposed to the 1962 level of 0.5% growth)

• Cuba received aid from Russia in order to get independence from America and ultimately lead to Cubas true independence as a nation.

• Castro terminates the industry in 1963 and abandons Guevara's plans

Multiple Choice

Despite the policies made by Castro in favor of gender equality, 15% of women had a lower income rate than men and only __% of ______ central committee members were female.

• 12%, WWC

• 16%, PCC

• 17%, WWC

• 15%, PCC

Multiple Choice

What was a direct result of Castro nationalizing public utilities (which often were previously owned by the US)?

• Reduced prices for Cubans to use the utilities

• Increase in labor products

• Increase in sugar production

• Reduced prices for Venezuelans to use the utilities

Multiple Choice

Which political party was empowered by Fidel Castro and the revolutionary government?

• The Anti Communist Party

• The Popular Socialist Party

• The Revolutionary Coordination Party

• The Party Opposition

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Office of the Revolutionary Plans and Coordination (ORPC)?

• What was the purpose of the Office of the Revolutionary Plans and Coordination (ORPC)?

• To coordinate the implementation of policies across government departments

• To empower Anti-Communists

• To slow down the implementation of political policies

Multiple Choice

Tribunals enforce ____________ and ____________ to meet production goals in Cuba.

• Mutual economic assistance and investments

• Import price laws and sales channels

• Better working conditions and industry laws

• Labor laws and worker rights

Multiple Choice

The implementation of a system of ____________ and ____________ led to a significant increase in productivity from 1971 to 1973, as well as a corresponding increase in Cuba's GDP from 3.9% to 10%.

• Economic resolutions and subsidies

• Work rewards and bonuses

• Trading partner and work bonus

• Material incentives and merit pay

Multiple Choice

Some of the positive results of free healthcare was that there wasn’t one hospital that was shut down during the what period of the 1990s.

• Grand period

• Special period

• Healing Period

• Virtuous period

Multiple Choice

Large waves of educated Cuban immigrants (also known as brain drain) in 1965, 1980, 1994 which Castro famously Castro famously dismissed as...

• Morally questionable

• Economically unsound

• Politically unreliable

• Socially awkward

Multiple Choice

What was NOT a result of Castros social policies for gender equality?

• Abortion rights

• Divorce rights

• Women's suffrage

• Subsidized family planning

Multiple Choice

What was another name for the New Ballad Movement?

• New Song Movement

• The Revolutionary Ballad Movement

• The New Ballad Era

• The Revolutionary Songs Movement

Multiple Select

Why was Castro's censorship so effective?

• He apologized

• He was very attractive

• His brutal enforcement of censorship laws

• His dedication to propaganda

Multiple Choice

What was censored by Castro?

• Art

• Opinions

• All of the above

• Dissent

Multiple Choice

The NBM was used to promote which sentiments?

• Pro-communism

• Anti-american ism

• Anti-justice on the continent

• pro-westernization

Multiple Choice

What was the usage of promoting the arts?

• It was a cultural investment for the future

• It helped foster a sense of nationalism

• They helped people learn and support Castro

• All of the above