Castro's Cuba

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South American countries which historically had been settled by Spain or Portugal

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Latin America

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named after senator Orville Platt the amendment became the basis for what was in effect a binding treaty between Cuba and the USA

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The Platt Amendment

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an underworld crime syndicate particularly strong in Florida

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Mafia

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organized bodies representing such groups as the sugar and tobacco workers in Cuba

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Labor Unions

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made the US Parliament and made the senate and House of Representatives

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Congress

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in the Caribbean had been led for two decades up until 1952 by Trujillo, who gained a fearsome reputation for the ferocity with which he suppressed his political opposition

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Dominican Republic

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one of the most northerly of the South American countries republic underwent a bloody political conflict in the 1940s and 1950s known as The Violence

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Colombia

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literally translates to “Orthodox Party” but more means “People’s Party”

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Partido Ortodoxo

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relating to the ideas of Karl Marx, a German revolutionary, who had advanced the notion that human society developed historically as a continuous series of class struggles between those who did not. He taught that the culmination of this dialectical process would be the crushing victory of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie

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Marxist

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a Central American state bordered by Mexico and Brazil

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Guatemala

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Central Intelligence Agency, the USA’s espionage, and counterespionage organization

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CIA

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a style of warfare in which mobile troops living off the land harass the enemy

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Guerrilla

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Castro’s name for his revolutionary movement chosen in commemoration of the Moncada Barracks attack which had taken place on that day 1953

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26 July movement

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a mountain range running across the province of Oriente in eastern Cuba

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Sierra Maestra

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someone willing to engage in a violent struggle but lacking in a true understanding of the revolutionary process

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Putchista

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USA’s foreign ministry

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State Department

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Sierra Cristal

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a mountain range in northern Cuba

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a mountain range in central Cuba

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Escambrav

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a governing Cabinet

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Council of Ministry

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special public court hearings meant as propaganda exercises in which the accused were paraded as enemies of the people

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Show trial

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dedicated communist party workers trained to take over as officials in the event of a revolution in Cuba

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Cadres

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the period of political and diplomatic tension, 1945-91 between the capitalist USA and its allies and the communist USSR and its allies

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Cold War

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signed between the USSR and Cuba on February 1960 according to which the Soviet Union was to buy the bulk of the island’s sugar crop in return for selling oil and industrial machinery to Cuba

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Commercial Agreement

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anti-Castro elements who had fled the islands after the 1959 revolution

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Cuban Emigres

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A warning given by President Monroe in 1923 that the USA would not allow other powers to colonize or interfere in any part of the Americas and would regard itself as the protector of the region.

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Monroe Doctrine

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nuclear-armed missile

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Polaris

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a commonly used term referring to the Soviet government, which was located in the Kremlin fortress in Moscow, the USSR’s capital

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Kremlin

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the Cuban Landowner’s great estates

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Latifundias

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basic crop or commodity on which an economy relies

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Staple

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depriving the peasants of their land and requiring them to live and work in communes

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Collectivization

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the identification of Chinese Communism with Mao Personally

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Maoism

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the countries of eastern and Central Europe which were dominated by the Soviet Union between the late 1940s and late 1980s

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Eastern Block

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General Directorate of Intelligence, an internal security agency, concerned with enforcing conformity within Cuba. It was especially active as an anti-US spy network

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DGI

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a revitalization of the Cuban Revolution by correction of past errors

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rectification

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Gross National Product the annual total value of goods and services produced by a country at home. Added to the profits from its exports trade

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GNP

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a Catholic organization calling for religious and political freedom in Cuba

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Varela Project

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originally used by US president George W Bush to refer to those countries which he regarded as supporting terrorists or creating weapons of mass destruction, Iran, Iraq and North Korea

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The Axis of Evil