Post War Latin America

Question 1

Angel Castro

Question 2

Gerado Machado

Answer 2

In 1925, after a financial crisis and government corruption, Gerardo Machado was elected president after promising reform.
Instead, Machado became Cuba’s first dictatorial ruler, until he was ousted in 1933 after a revolt led by Fulgencio Batista, a rising star in the Cuban military.

Question 3

Ramon Grau

Question 4

Fulgencio Batista

Question 5

Meyer Lansky

Answer 5

aka “The Mob’s Accountant,” helped the mafia control Cuba’s casinos and racetracks

Question 6

Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Question 7

Fidel Castro

Question 8

Raul Castro

Question 9

Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado

Question 10

Vilma Espin

Question 11

Carlos Moore

Question 12

Reinaldo Arenas

Question 13

Havana

Question 14

Santiago

Question 15

Guantanamo Bay

Question 16

Isla de Pinos

Question 17

Sierra Maestra Mountains

Question 18

Bay of Pigs

Question 19

United Fruit Co

Question 20

Botello

Answer 20

Nepotism, the use of family and personal relationships for one to gain power

Question 21

Platt Amendment

Answer 21

Approved on May 22, 1903, the Platt Amendment was a treaty between the US and Cuba to protect Cuba’s independence from foreign intervention. It permitted extensive US involvement in Cuban International and domestic affairs for the enforcement of Cuban independence

Question 22

Chivo

Answer 22

Creating fake jobs as political favors

Question 23

Prohibition

Question 24

Moncada Barracks

Question 25

“History will absolve me”

Question 26

26th of July Movement

Question 27

Granma

Question 28

Fidelistas

Question 29

New Year’s Day 1959

Question 30

First Fundamental Law of Republic Council of Ministers

Question 31

Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs)

Question 32

U.S. Embargo

Question 33

Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI)

Question 34

Cuban Socialist Revolution (PURSC)

Question 35

Communist Party of Cuba (CPC)

Question 36

Alliance for Progress

Question 37

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 38

Dvina IRBM

Question 39

Chusovaya MRBM

Question 40

Cuban Women’s Federation (FMC)

Question 41

Family Code

Question 42

Social “deviants”

Question 43

Ministry for the Recovery of Misappropriated Assets

Question 44

Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP)

Question 45

Agrarian Reform Law (ARL)

Question 46

Institute of Agrarian Reform

Question 47

“Year of Decisive Endeavour”

Question 48

“Ten Million Ton Harvest”

Question 49

Four-Year Plan of 1961

Question 50

Nueva Trova

Question 51

National Movement of Ballard (MNT)