This is a video made by Eloise, Emily, and Hannah. It talks about the Cuban Revolution and the aftermath of the revolution and it also talks about whether the Cuban Revolution was worth the sacrifices made. The Cuban Revolution was an armed uprising in Cuba that overthrew Fulgencio Batista’s government on January 1st, 1959. This revolution was led by Fidel Castro, who later went on to rule Cuba from 1959 to 2008. I believe that this revolution was not worth it because the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution was not all that great. Although the citizens of Cuba were freed from Batista and his corrupted government, conflicts between the US and Cuba and made severe impacts and influences on Cuba. During the Cuban missile crisis that was part of the aftermath of the revolution, leaders of the US and the Soviet Union had engaged in a tense negotiation that lasted for a week. This crisis brought the US and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of nuclear missiles in Cuba and it almost ended the world. In addition, the revolution had also caused Kennedy to ban US citizens from traveling or making financial transactions with Cuba. The embargo on Cuba had also devasted the nation’s economy for more than 50 years. In conclusion, I believe that the Cuban revolution was not worth all the sacrifices made as the aftermath of Cuba was not pleasant.

From this unit, we can tell that most revolutions start out with a nation that has a corrupted government or monarch and that the nation’s society is divided into two classes, the poor and the rich. Most of the time, it’s the poor that leads the revolution against the rich and the corrupted. In short, revolutions are an uprising of violence that occurs when the population revolts against the government, most of the time due to political oppression.