Latin America: Cuban Revolution Flashcards

1
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When did Fulgencio Batista come to power?

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1952

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2
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When was Fidel Castro’s ‘History Will Absolve Me’ speech?

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1953

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Facts about pre-revolution cuba beign dependent on foreign countries

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-85 percent of cuba’s small farmers paid rent to foreign-owned corporations

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Pre-revolution undemocratic fact

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Elections in June 1952 cancelled

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5
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Pre-revolution state repressive organisations

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  • Military Intelligence Service (SIM)

- Bureau of Reprssion of Communist Activities (BRAC)

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Pre-revolution literacy rate

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literacy rate 75%

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Urban Vs Rural dichotomy fact

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-One physician per 227 people in Havana, but only one per 2423 in Oriente Province

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Democratic shortcomings of the revolution

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-Manuel Urrutia a former anti-Batsita judge resigned as head of state in July 1959 as a protest

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Post-revolution Nationalising fact

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  • Agrarian reform law passed in 1959

- Agrarian reform law in 1960 allowed expropriation of US companies

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Post-revolution education fact

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  • illiteracy rate dropped from 20% to 12% in two yeras

- High rates of university education

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Post-revolution women and family facts

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  • Freedom of choice in abortionand birth control
  • Child care, maternity leave
  • 1975 Cuban Family Code outlwaed discrimination against women and girls even within family
  • Federacion de Mujeres Cubanas (FMC)
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12
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LGBT institutions post-revolution

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-Cuban National Centre for Sex Education promoted LGVT

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Post-revolution wages fact

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-Wages rose by 40% in first three years of the revolution

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Post-revolution industry facts

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-Very inefficent so in 1963 soviet advisors recommended suspending industrialisation projects

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Post-revolution agriculture facts

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  • Sugar production at dangerously low levels by 1962

- In 1963, Castro set goal to harvest 10 million tons of sugar by 1970 which was not achieved

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16
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Over-reliance on soviet union facts

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-After dissolution of Soviet Union, Cuba lost access to 75% of its imports and over 90% of its external market, and more than 90% of its crude oil that it exchanged for sugar

17
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-Income equality fact during special period

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-During special period everyone loser about 20 pounds of weight , regardless of occupation or status

18
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De-racialisation of society and politcs facts

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  • 80% of blacks in favour of the revolution
  • Castro speech in March 1959
  • Forum against racial discrimination in 1959 in University of Havana
19
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state taking control of employment fact

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-by 1963 state owned 70% of agriculture, 95% of industry, 75% of retail

20
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Afro-cuban education facts

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  • Nationalising of private schools in 1961 gave afrocubans opporutunities
  • Mass literacy campaign of 1961
21
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Historians

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  • ada Ferrer blacks
  • develin Benson blacks
  • sharpio claims a lot of repression under Batista
22
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Batista repression

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20,000 dead under Batista according to Sharpio