Aim: How did the Cuban revolution promise to
improve life for Cubans?
Do Now: What is the difference between A
communist and a capitalist country?
HW- Find out the name and create a short one
paragraph biography of a Cuban baseball player
playing in the major leagues who escaped from
Cuba?
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
A. Location
1. Cuba is a small island nation approximately 150 miles
south of Florida
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
B. Cuba under Batista
1. Batista was a corrupt dictator who ruled Cuba with an
iron fist
2. Cuban people lived in
poverty with little hope of
improvement
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
Fulgencio
Batista
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
C. Cuban Revolution
1. Led by Castro, fought against Batista and won
2. Castro installs a Communist gov’t. and banned all
other political parties
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
Fidel Castro as a
Young
Revolutionary
Communism: an economic
system that states all
property is controlled and
owned by the government.
The opposite of capitalism
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
Cuban “Young Pioneers”
What were some of Castro’s reforms??
Nationalized property
Collectivization of Farms
Increased education/medical care
No elections
Alienated the middle class
Disregard for human rights
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
The Bay of Pigs Fiasco: 1961
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
The Bay of Pigs Fiasco: 1961
US Plan to use
Cubans to
overthrow
Castro.
Cubans were
trained by the
CIA, which the
US denied.
The mission
was a failure.
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
The Cuban “Boat People”
The Cuban Adjustment
Act - 1966
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
The Refugee “Problem” Today
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
3. The U.S. tried to stop Castro by cutting off all
trade to Cuba…leading to poverty to Cuba
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
The Cuban “Boat People”
The Cuban Adjustment
Act - 1966
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?
Aim: How did Fidel Castro change Cuban society?