The Cuban Revolution +

Who was the leader of Cuba before Fidel Castro?

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

Why did many Cubans leave Cuba to come to America?

(Choose 2 answers.)

• The cost of living was to expensive
• Castro would not allow many personal freedoms

• America offered these people money to flee Cuba
• Castro seized (took over) private property of successful people

What are guerrillas?

• animals closely related to a monkey and chimpanzee

• a revolutionary group in Cuba fighting Communism

• large groups of trained soldiers that roam the forest looking for war

• small military groups that are made up of regular citizens

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

• small class of rich Cubans with all the power and most people in poverty (being poor)

• people were happy and willing to die for their home country of Cuba

• disease and starvation killed off most of the population

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 was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• In October 1962, U.S. planes spotted secret nuclear missile launching sites in Cuba

• Nuclear missiles were fired in Cuba, killing millions in the U.S.

• Cubans seized (took over) thousands of missiles secretly hidden in Florida

• Cuba participated in the Cold War with the Soviet Union producing thousands of nuclear missiles

Cuba has one of the wealthiest (richest) economies in the world today.

• true
• false

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

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

• socialism

• mixed

• market

• Communism

Who defeated Batista's government to become dictator of Cuba in 1959? 

• Miguel Hidalgo
• Raul Castro
• Fidel Castro
• John F. Kennedy