Cuban Revolution

Cuba is the global producer of ?

• Cigars
• Cars
• Coffee
• Sugar Cane

Who was the leader of Cuba before Fidel Castro?

• Raul Castro
• George Washington
• Fulgencio Batista
• Fidel Castro

Which of the following describes Cuba when Batista was the dictator?

• small class of rich Cubans with all the power with the majority of people poor with no power: dictatorship
• people happy willing to die for their home country of Cuba: nationalism
• disease plagued with epidemics killing majority of the population

Why did the U.S. originally support Castro and his men?

• Castro agreed to sign a peace treaty with the U.S.
• Castro agreed to form an alliance with the U.S.
• Castro promised to increase trade Cuba and the U.S.
• he promised to make Cuba a democracy

What type of government does Cuba have? 

• Democracy
• Communist 

What type of economic system did Cuba establish after the Cuban Revolution?

• traditional
• mixed
• market
• command

What was the Cuban missile crisis?

• October 1962, U.S. planes spotted secret missile bases in Cuba
• thousands of missiles went off in Cuba killing millions
• Cubans seized thousands of missiles secretly hidden in Florida
• Cuba participated in the Cold War with the Soviet Union producing thousands of missile preparing for war

How was the Cuban missile crisis resolved?

• president Kennedy resigned from office in 1972 causing the conflict to go away
• Cuba bombed America with missiles resulting in the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Cuba
• president Kennedy agreed not to invade Cuba and to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey, and Khruschev agreed to remove missiles from Cuba
• president Kennedy sent in troops seizing and arresting people and sent them to Guantanamo Bay

What did the United States do to Cuba after it became communist?

• put a quota on goods from Cuba
• imposed an embargo on Cuba
• installed missiles in Florida facing Cuba
• assassinated Fidel Castro

How did the embargo placed on Cuba affect its economy? 

• The economy was drastically weakened. 
• The economy grew. 
• It had no effect on the economy. 
• The embargo was never placed on Cuba.