Fidel Castro and Cuba – Flashcards
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Capital of Cuba
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Havana
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Moncada Barracks
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July 26, 1953 failed assault by Castro and his men
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"History Will Absolve Me"
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Castro gave this all day speech which failed to prevent his conviction for the Moncada attack
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Bay of Pigs
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failed military invasion of Cuba by the CIA
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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US-SU political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. Kennedy agreed to remove US missiles from Turkey in exchange for the removal of Cuban missiles
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Mariel Boatlift
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Castro declared convicts, the mentally ill, and political dissidents could leave Cuba on this device.
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Fidel Castro was imprisoned
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1953-1955
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August 13, 1926
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Castro's DOB
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November 25, 2016
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Fidel Castro dies
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Cuba
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nation placed under a U.S. trade embargo in 1960
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Fidel Castro
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through a guerrilla revolution in 1959, he seized political power in Cuba
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Guerrilla Warfare
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Use of hit and run tactics by small mobile groups
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Che Guevara
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Argentinian Marxist revolutionary that had big impact on the Cuban revolution
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26 of July Movement
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A vanguard revolutionary organization planned and led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara that in 1959 overthrew the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba. The Movement fought the Batista regime on both rural and urban fronts
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Fulgencio Batista
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U.S.-backed military leader who served as the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution.
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Platt Amendment (1901)
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It gave the US the 'right' to intervene in Cuban Affairs. The US had also insisted that the Cuban Constitution include it.
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Embargo
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a government order imposing a trade barrier
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Raúl Castro
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The youngest of the five Castro siblings. Unlike his brother, Fidel, he was always known as a radical. In 1953, he became involved in the youth movement of the Communist Party, and he fought alongside Fidel for the communist movement.
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José Martí
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He was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. His unification of the Cuban émigré community was crucial to the success of the Cuban War of Independence against Spain.
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Sugar Cane
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main crop in Cuba; "sugar bowl of the world"
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Monoculture Economy
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agricultural practice of growing or producing one single crop over a wide area
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Terms of trade
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relationship between the prices at which a country sells its exports and the prices it pays for its imports
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Granma Expedition
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Castro leads group of 82 from Mexico to Cuba with purpose to overthrow Batista
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Sierra Maestra
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mountains from which Castro's men launched guerrilla attacks against Batista's regime
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John F. Kennedy
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Was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs Invasion took place during his presidency.
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Nikita Kruschev
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leader of Soviet Union from 1953-1964 who formed ties with Castro and Cuba
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Corruption
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Form of dishonest or unethical conduct by a person entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire personal benefit.
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The Cuban Revolution
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The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. The revolution began in July 1953, and continued sporadically until 1 January 1959, replacing his government with a revolutionary socialist state.
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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A civilian foreign intelligence service of the U.S. Government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence.
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Castroism
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The political principles or actions of Fidel Castro or his adherents or imitators.
