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Cuba
Directions: Answer the following using p. 550 - 551
Who led the Cuban revolution in 1959?
Even though he was praised at first for bringing social reforms to Cuba and improving the economy, list three examples of what he did as a harsh dictator:
Castro nationalized the Cuban economy and took over the U.S.-owned sugar mills and refineries in Cuba. What did the U.S. President Eisenhower do in response?
Who did Castro turn to for economic and military aid?
How did Cuba humiliate the U.S. at the Bay of Pigs in 1961?
After he was convinced the United States would not resist Soviet expansion in Latin America after what occurred at the Bay of Pigs, what did the Soviet leader, Nikita Khruschchev, do in July of 1962 in Cuba? / What did the U.S. President, John F. Kennedy, declare after the American spy plane discovered the sites?
What two things did JFK demand?
How did Castro respond to this?
What did people around the world start to fear?
Why did Khruschev finally agree to remove the missiles?
What was the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis for Castro and Cuba?
In exchange for this support, what did Castro back in Latin America and Africa?
Based on what you just learned, illustrate the nuclear face-off of the Cuban Missile Crisis (p. 551)
(It does not have to be in color – black and white is okay)
Middle East
Directions: Answer the following using p. 552 – 553
What attracted both superpowers in the Middle East?
What was the cultural clash that occurred in Iran?
Which side did the United States support?
As a result, what did Iran’s capital, Tehran, have by the end of the 1950s?
Despite all of that, how were millions of Iranians still living?
What was at the heart of Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini’s foreign policy?
What did Islamic revolutionaries do in 1979?
What did Khomeini encourage Muslim radicals everywhere to do?
This policy heightened tensions between Iran and which of its neighbors?
Who was the leader of that nation? / What happened between Iran and Iraq in 1980?
What side did the United States support? Explain.
What side did the Soviet Union support?
What happened in Afghanistan in the late 1970’s?
What did this lead to in 1979?
What happened to the Soviets in Afghanistan?
Why did the United States arm the Afghan rebels?
How did the U.S. President Jimmy Carter warn the Soviets against any attempt to gain control of the Persian Gulf (what was stopped and what was boycotted)?
Part II: Cold War Goes Global (1948-1975) - Answer the following using the map on p. 550
1. On which continents identified on the map did Cold War conflicts NOT occur? (Continents include: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa & Antarctica). Why is that significant?
2. About what fraction of the globe did Communists control by 1975?
3. Where was Communist expansion prevented by the U.S. and allies? (Name the countries using the map key)
4. In Africa, the Soviet Union aided anticolonial struggles in Congo (1960), Mozambique (1971), and Angola (1974). WHY do you think they did this? (You are an educated student – THINK about what you know about imperialism and colonies, and who controlled them in Africa… how would a struggle against the imperializing countries HELP the Soviet Union)?