Cuban Revolution

______________ is the former communist dictator of Cuba who led the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista in the 1959 Cuban Revolution

• Fidel Castro

• Josef Stalin

• Hirohito

• Adolf Hitler

The Cuban Revolution led to the establishment of a ______________ first government in the Western Hemisphere.

• anarchist

• communist

• capitalist

• lassaiz-fair

What is the 1962 Cold War event where the Soviet Union, with the agreement of the Castro regime, placed missiles on the island of Cuba?

• Bombing of Pearl Harbor

• Holocaust

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs

Who was the former president and later dictator of Cuba prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution? He was overthrown by Fidel Castro

• Raul Castro

• Che Guevara

• Nikita Kruschev

• Fulgencio Batista

This is the name used to describe Russia and 14 other nations during Cold War; also known as the U.S.S.R.

• West Berlin

• Dunkirk

• Soviet Union

• Russian Federation

When one nation's government decides to prohibit or stop all trade with another nation is known as a(n) _____________.

• tariff

• quota

• embargo

• subsidy

Bay of Pigs was the

• failed military invasion and unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro in 1962

• attempted bombing of the southern coast of Cuba

• agreement between the Soviet Union and U.S. to divide Cuba

• site of a nuclear explosion in Cuba

As a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the

• Cuba became a democratic nation

• Soviet Union and U.S. signed a peace treaty.

• Cold War ended.

• United States placed an embargo on the nation of Cuba.

After Fulgencio Batista was elected president in Cuba in 1952, he turned his rule into a

• communist government

• dictatorship

• democracy

• parliament

Fidel Castro led an uprising against Batista that came to be called

• the Russian Revolution

• World War III

• the Cuban Missile Crisis

• the Cuban Revolution