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Cuban Revolution - Coggle Diagram
Cuban Revolution
Social Policies
Mayority of citizens got a job
Late 1900's women suffrage
Homosexuals were perseuted
Educational and Heath services were free
Prostitution became a negative aspect of Cuba
Rehabilitation centers were established
Causes
Bastida dictaitorship in 1952
Spread discontent on the tyranical government
Spanish control over Cuba
Platt amendment 1900 - 1902
Castro attempts to overthrow Bastida in 1953
Battle of Havana in 1959 - Bastida flees
Consequences
Improvement in the medical fields
Cubas Economy fails
Due to the dependence on the trading with the USSR
The US dislikes Castros Regime
Planning to overthrow him
The USSR placed IBM's(Cuban Missile Crisis)
Economy
First Agrarian Reform Law
June 2, 1959
Demanded land that was unused to be evenly ditsrtibuted among the working class
The government took over many companies
Cuban Missille Crisis
October 16 - October 28 -1962
Pros
Gave Cuba a certain amount of economic stability
Gave Cuba protection against the US
Cons
Created a greater tension between the US and Cuba
Cuba needs the US to handdle its economy
Literacy Campaign
Created in order to stop the rising iliteracy rate
1961 considerd to be the year of education
Many schools were created
People became teachers