Cuba

BY: Amy Perez

Climate• Climate of Cuba is semitropical• trade winds and sea breezes make coastal areas more habitable than

temperature alone• Cuba has a rainy season from May to October• Droughts are common• Cuba's eastern coast is often hit by hurricanes from August to October,

resulting in great economic loss.

Important regions

• The Sierra Maestra is Cuba's largest mountain range

• symbolic point of reference for the Cuban nation

• area served as refuge and campground to Cuban rebels dating back to Hatuey (killed in 1511)

• Many intense battles took place in and around the mountain range

Development of country

• The development of the country is horrible due to the hurricanes

• This is a third world country not only due to communism but also because the hurricanes destroy everything in the towns

• The mountains however how protected the people from many battles

Ethnic

• 70% of Cubans are of Spanish descent

• Black population is descended from the slaves and from migrants from neighboring states, in particular Jamaica.

• Chinese and African slaves were taken to Cuba in the early 1900s

(Official 2002 Cuba Census)[11]

Race Total Men Women % Of Total

White 7,271,926

3,618,349

3,653,577 75.05%

Black 1,126,894 593,876 533,018 10.08%

Mulatto 2,658,675

1,385,008

1,393,915 13.84%

Asian 112,268 56,098 56,170 1.02%

(Official 1953 Cuba Census)[12][10]

Race Total Men Women % Of Total

White 4,243,956

2,172,933

2,071,023 80.8%

Black 725,311 379,107 346,204 8.4%

Mulatto 843,105 418,009 425,096 10.5%

Asian 16,657 15,106 1,551 0.3%

Poverty in Cuba

• Living standards in Cuba fell dramatically in the early 1990s after the collapse of the east European communist bloc,

• 50% of nation still lives off of the peso other half uses the American dollar

• Communism puts a restriction on the amount of goods the people can buy at the market

• Communism also limits the jobs and how much money the common house hold can make

The Cuban People

• Language spoken: Spanish• Most of their influences are from Spain and

Africa• Dancing is a huge part of their culture

Fidel Castro• Cuban revolutionary

and politician• Position of Prime

Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976

• then President from 1976 to 2008

Cuban Missile Crisis• confrontation among the Soviet

Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War

• unsuccessful operations by the U.S. to overthrow the Cuban regime

• The compromise was a particularly sharp embarrassment for Khrushchev and the Soviet Union because the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Italy and Turkey was not made public

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The Bay of Pigs invasion was intended to provoke popularity for an uprising against Fidel Castro

• Instead, it gave Castro a military victory and a permanent symbol of Cuban resistance to American aggression.

• Planning for the invasion began in 1960, before diplomatic ties with Cuba had been broken

• since the plan was to overthrow a government with which the United States was not at war.