Cuban Revolution

What element of the Cuban Revolution did the US support?

• No elements

• The US wanted to place an embargo on Cuba.

• Castro pledged to increase trade with the USA

• Castro had promised to make Cuba a democracy.

Fidel Castro defeated Batista. This was the major event of the Cuban Revolution. What was one major result of the Cuban Revolution of the 1950s?

• The new Cuban government encouraged industrialization, leading to rapid economic growth.

• The new Cuban government established a market economy, causing skilled workers to immigrate to Cuba.

• The new Cuban government embraced communism, hurting relations between the United States and Cuba.

• The new Cuban government imposed democratic reforms, giving its citizens new political freedoms.

Did the US Citizens with investments in Cuba support the new Cuban government after the Cuban Revolution? Why or why not?

• They were opposed to the new government because the Cuban government took over private property in Cuba including the property that the US owned.

• They supported the new government because the previous dictator was very unpopular and US citizens wanted Cuban citizens to enjoy free democracy.

• They were opposed to the new government because Cuba had nuclear missiles and the people in the US would use it on them.

• They supported the new government because the previous government taxed US sugar at a higher rate and they hoped the new government would reduce taxes.

As a result of the Cuban Revolution, the government of Cuba changed from

• one kind of dictatorship to another

• one kind of republic to another

• a dictatorship to a republic

• a republic to a dictatorship

Which of these were immediate impacts of the Cuban Revolution?

• Batista loyalists were exiled, executed, or imprisoned

• Civil Rights were restricted

• Land, businesses, and factories were made property of the state

• All of the above

In 1959, __________ seized power in Cuba

• President Kennedy

• Fulgencio Batista

• Khrushchev

• President Obama

• Fidel Castro

Poor living conditions led to the ____(1)______. The Cuban Revolution led to _____(2)_____. Cuba then allowed the USSR to house missiles on their island which leads to ___(3)_____.

• 1-Cuban Revolution

  2-Batista's followers being exiled, executed, or imprisoned

  3-Cuban Missile Crisis

• 1-Cuban Revolution

  2-Castro's followers being exiled, executed, or imprisoned.

  3-Cuban Missile Crisis

• 1-Cuban Revolution

  2-Kennedy's followers being exiled, executed, or imprisoned

  3-Cuban Missile Crisis

Dictator of Cuba before 1959

• President Kennedy

• Fulgencio Batista

• Khrushchev

• President Obama

• Fidel Castro

Dictator of Cuba after 1959

• President Kennedy

• Fulgencio Batista

• Khrushchev

• President Obama

• Fidel Castro

Cuba made strong alliances with _______, which created conflict with the United States.

• China

• The Soviet Union

• Spain

• Haiti