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32 Cards in this Set
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Che’s Four Year Plan
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- called for agricultural diversification and industrialization
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Moral Incentives
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- rewards such as decorations and public praise instead of getting paid
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10 Million Ton Harvest
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- increased agricultural production to generate large earnings that would break all of Cuba’s records for sugar production in 1970
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Council of Ministers
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- executive and administrative body of the Republic of Cuba and constitutes the nation’s government.
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Second Agrarian Law 10/1963
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- expropriated thousands of medium-sized farms, forced small farmers who remained to sell their crops at low cost
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Osvald Dorticós
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- Cuban politician who was appointed as President of Cuba by the Council of Ministers from July 17, 1959 until December 2, 1976.
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Carlos Rafael Rodriguez
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- Guevara’s main opponent, an economist and long-time Communist Party member. Proposed a more conventional path, relying on material incentives instead of only moral ones. Also favored a strong party and “flexible” policy toward Latin America.
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“Let The Shame Be Welcome” Speech
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- marathon speech where Castro took responsibility for the unrealistic crusade for the super-harvest, he offered to resign, but the crowds cried no.
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Oswaldo Paya
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- political activist in Cuba and is considered that country’s most prominent political dissident
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1971 Crackdown on Opposition
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- Fidel launched furious attacks on “former friends” of the Revolution who had said that Fidel’s regime was leading Cuba toward economic defeat.
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Heberto Padillo
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- internationally known writer, forced to confess crimes against the Revolution
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René Dumont
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- French agronomist, who attributed Cuba’s agricultural failures to Fidel’s ego and the unorganized militarization of the Cuban economy.
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Armando Hart
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- one of many responsible for tactical planning in the urban underground, Cuban politician, guerilla and Communist leader
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Federation of Cuban Women
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- essential in advancing both gender equalization and health improvement for women
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National Assembly of People’s Power
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- legislative parliament of the Republic of Cuba and the supreme body of State power, more than 600 members serve five-year terms
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Haydee Santamaria
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- one of many responsible for tactical planning in the urban underground. Cuban politician, guerilla, part of the revolutionary movement
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1975 1st Communist Party Congress
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- completed the formal establishment of the revolution
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Free Farmers’ Markets
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- individual vendors, mostly farmers, who set up booths, tables or stands, to sell produce, meat products, fruits and prepared foods and beverages for free.
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Rectification Program
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- abolished small-scale private businesses and brought back moral incentives, attempting to make something of the country’s deepening economic crisis.
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Celia Sanchez
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- participant of the Cuban Revolution and a close friend of Fidel Castro, guerilla and founder of the 26th of July Movement.
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1976 Constitution
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- Cuba’s first socialist constitution, attempt to make government more responsive to the people, provided for a pyramid of elected bodies
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1978 Cuban Adjustment Act
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- granted immediate legal status to all Cubans arriving in the United States
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Mariel Boatlift
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- mass exodus of Cubans who departed from Cuba’s Mariel Harbor for the United States between April and October 1980.
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General Arnaldo Ochoa
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- a prominent Cuban general who was executed after being found guilty of treason
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Perestroika
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- a political movement referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system
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Comecon
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- the foreign trade authority for the USSR and East Europe
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Helms- Burton Act
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- tightening of the US embargo after two exile planes were shot down in Cuban air space
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Varela Project
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- a band of dissidents had been allowed to campaign for a referendum to gauge the public’s desire for basic civil and political liberties
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“Special Period”
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- sought economic reform without altering its socialist essence
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1998 Visit of J.P. II
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- pope called for the US to lift its embargo and for Cuba to be a more pluralistic society
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Basic Units of Cooperative Production
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- operated on a profit-sharing basis and administered their own resources
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Torricelli Act
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- banned trade with Cuba by the foreign subsidiaries of US companies
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