IB Authoritarian Regimes (CASTRO)

'Legend, Wizard and Father' describes

• Amin

• Castro

The USA barring European colonial influence in Latin America:

• Platt Amendment

• Colonial Disbarring Service

• Monroe Doctrine

• Balfour Declaration

Tick all that apply to the Batista regime:

• Corruption

• US control

• One party state

• Gap between rich and poor increased

Tick all that apply: 26 July 1953

• An attack in army barracks went wrong

• Raul and Fidel went to court

• Castro used the court as a stage for his campaign

• 'History will absolve me' speech

Tick all that apply: Castro's revolutionary demands

• Land

• Profits

• Constitution

• Education

• Nationalisation

Overthrow Batista and restore democracy: agreements made in the

• Monroe Doctrine

• Pact of Caracas 1958

• Havana Agreement 1959

• 26 July Movement Manifesto

Tick all that apply: Castro was able to seize power because:

• He had good leaders to work with

• Batista was nasty

• He began operations in an unimportant part of the island

• He drew Batista's forces away from the cities allowing opposition to grow there

• Cuban economics were in a terrible state

The ORPC, set up in Jan 1959, was

• Organisation for revolutionary practice & commissions

• Organisation of revolutionary people and cadres

• Office of revolutionary plans and coordination

• Office of revolutionary people and cadres

The ORPC was important because

• It undermined the Cabinet

• It undermined the Cabinet and created Dual Power

• It ensured the pursuit of democracy in Cuba

• It provided stability in political direction in Cuba

By 1960

• Cuba was still a democracy

• Cuba was Communist

• Castro loved the US

• Castro was Liberal