CUBAN REVOLUTION

1) The groups used different methods to express their frustrations towards the government. A method that the groups used was to attack the government with force. There were a lot of armed attacks during the revolution. One of them was the attack on the Moncada Barracks. They weren't successful. Another one, was the attack on the presidential palace. It was led by anticommunist students. They tried to assassinate Fulgencio Batista, but they failed. This happened on March 13,1957. There was also a war that happened. It was between Fidel Castro and Fulgencio Batista. Castro only had about 300 men and Batista had about 30,000 men. The battle went on for awhile. It ended when Batista gave up and fled the country. These was the methods used by the anti-Batista groups. 2) It is similar to the Philippine revolution because after the revolution the former dictator Fulgencio Batista just left the country with a lot of money. Just like when Marcos left the country with a lot of money when the people over powered him. It is also similar to the American Revolution because there was armed force involved in the revolution. 3) After the revolution, the new Cuban government change what was going on in Cuba. They made the nation atheist. The eliminated illiteracy; and they implemented land reforms. They also crated a revolutionary militia; and Castro also initiated Committees for the Defense of the Revolution in late September 1960. They began to expropriate land and private property in Cuba. The Cuban lawyer writes that farms of any size could be and were seized by the government. They nationalized 25 billion dollars worth of land owned by Cuban; they also nationalized all the property owned by the united states and other foreign people. 4) I don’t think the revolution was justified because the dictator wasn’t put behind bars, but in fairness the dictator was removed from power. This made Cuba a better country. I don’t think that other methods would have worked because Batista was a very firm Dictator and I don’t think he would go down without a fight. So I think that armed force was necessary. 5) Yes, the Cuban revolution fits Briton Cranes Anatomy of a Revolution. It fits because Brinton Crane states, in stage 1, that the Cuban middle class loudly expresses its anger over economic resistance placed upon it by the government. In the Cuban revolution the Americans were angry at Fulgencio Batista because he was corrupt. In stage 2 of Brinton Cranes framework. He says that “this is the excavation of the anger felt by the middle class. The people rise up against the government”. In stage 3, Brinton Crane says that it is when the revolution is fragile. This is when Batista Lost a lot of his power and hardly had any followers. In stage 4, Brinton Crane talks about how srong a leader is. In the Cuban revolution, Castro was the new leader. BIBLIOGRAPHY Hamlton, Andrew. “the cuban expierience.” history 1998 28th jan 2008 .“Cuban Revolution.” Cuban Revolution - Wikipedia. 30 Jan 2008 .