Question

What was one major result of the Cuban Revolution of the 1950s?
• A. The new government encouraged industrialization, leading to rapid economic
growth.
• B. The new government established a market economy, causing skilled workers to
immigrate to Cuba.
• C. The new government embraced communism, hurting relations between the United
States and Cuba.
• D. The new government imposed democratic reforms, giving its citizens new political
freedoms

Answer 1

C. The new government embraced communism, hurting relations between the United States and Cuba.

After the 1959 revolution Castro’s government nationalized industries and aligned with the Soviet Union, which led to U.S. hostility, an embargo, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.