Agriculture and Industry 1959-68 success Flashcards
In _______, a minimum wage was introduced for _______ and, in ______, Castro announced details of his plans for land reform in the ________. Landless plantation workers were given _____ of farmland.
march 1959 sugar-cane cutters May 1959 Agrarian Reform Act 67 acres
In ______, the USA decided to destroy the Cuban ______ by cutting the sugar quota normally purchased by the USA.
Castro replied to this, “They will take away our sugar quota ______, and we will take away their sugar mills _______.”
July 1960
sugar industry
pound by pound
one by one
In august 1960, castro ______ all major ______ on the island; in November, the US announced a ____ on all exports.
nationalized
US properties
ban
The _______ agreed to purchase Cuban ____ at the favorable rate of ________ until 1970.
Soviet Union
sugar
6 cents per pound
Before the ______ of ____, unemployment had been high, especially in ______ - but the new government’s policies quickly ______ this.
Revolution
1959
rural areas
reduced
After 1959, the wages of ________ rose sharply and rents for the cheaper _______ were reduced by up to __. In ______, several utility companies were taken over and prices _____.
non-agricultural workers urban dwellings 50% March 1959 reduced
In April 1960, _______ of Soviet ______ were delivered to cuba. When the _______ oil refineries refused to process it, Castro ______ them in _____.
300,000 tones crude oil foreign-owned nationalized June 1960
Castro believed that a more ______ approach via a ________ was seen as the quickest way to ensure _________.
centralized
command economy
economic growth
“The aggression of _______ [has] accelerated the ___________.”
Castro’s response to the gradual introduction of socialism.
Historian?
imperialism
revolutionary process
Balfour
By the end of 1960:
____% of industry was under _______.
______ were producing ___% of _____.
80% state control
State enterprises; 90%; cubas exports
The early years were ______ for agriculture, as the ______ signed a series of agreements that guaranteed better and stable prices for sugar; sugar production then increased from the ____ level of ________.
successful
Soviet Union
1963
3.8 million tonnes
However, in ____ the Cuban economy ______. In _____, the economy declined even further as imports of _____ for rapid _______ resulted in a balance of payments crisis.
1962 collapsed 1963 machinery industrialisation
