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Fidel Castro

Aims and Learning Outcomes

 

Aims

  • To explain why Cuba became the most important Communist state in the Americas
  • To examine the role of Fidel Castro in establishing Cuba as a Communist state
  • To examine the record of Castro as ruler of Cuba

Learning Outcomes

These notes should help students to improve and develop their knowledge and understanding of such issues as:

  • The hardships suffered by many ordinary Cubans before Castro’s revolution
  • The methods Castro used to win over ordinary Cubans
  • The extent to which Castro’s success depended on the USSR