ROAR blog ( cuba Today )

The rise & the fall of a Republic

Comments:
1- American interviented between the war of Spain and Cuba for its independence

2- The great depression hit Cuba in 1933 and more than half of the active population was unemployed afterwards

3- Batista used his knowlegde of the USA governmet in his favor to try and create one in Cuba that was dependent of him

4- Fidel castro was of high education and at a rise of Tyranny in 1948 he became president of a high class Law association

5- He made a speech and it was clear what his goals for society would be under his rule ( after Monada Attack )

Questions:
1- How bad was the great depression? worse then the USA?

2- Did Batista create the Tyranny in Cuba?

3- What did Batista want to do for Cuba (his plans) ?

4- How did Castro become presidnt of the law association ?

Vocabulary:
1- contingent: dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional

2- treason: the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.

3- insurrection: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.

Literary terms:

1- irony - that the USA is in "the great depession" as well as Cuba
2- simile - the ecomies

Overview sentence:

It's about how Cuba was doing well with is economy and then began to fall. So it went from rise to fall. The bad economy led to many rebellions from citizens and how Fidel Catro began to rise in Cuba's history.