Key terms Flashcards
Important people
Angel Castro
Gerardo Machaado
Ramon Grau
Fulgencio Batista
Meyer Lansky
Fidel Castro
Raul Castro
Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado
Carlos Moore
Vilma Espin
Reinaldo Arenas
Geographic locations
Havana
Santiago
Guantanamo Bay
Isla de Pinos
Sierra Maestra Mountains
Bay of Pigs
Key Terms
Platt Amendment
United Fruit Co
Botello
Chivo
Prohibition
Moncada Barracks
“History will absolve me”
26th of July Movement
Granma
Fidelistas
New Year’s Day 1959
First Fundamental Law of Republic Council of Ministers
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs)
U.S. Embargo
Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI)
Cuban Socialist Revolution (PURSC)
Communist Party of Cuba (CPC)
Alliance for Progress
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dvina IRBM
Chusovaya MRBM
Cuban Women’s Federation (FMC)
Family Code
Social “deviants”
Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP)
Ministry for the Recovery of Misappropriated Assets
Agrarian Reform Law (ARL)
Institute of Agrarian Reform
Four-Year Plan of 1961
“Year of Decisive Endeavour”
Ten Million Ton Harvest”
Nueva Trova