Castro+specified+content

This topic overlaps with your SL Paper 2: Fidel Castro is a dictator from //another region// that you can write about in your essays on Topic 3: //Origins and development of authoritarian and single-party states//. Questions on Cuba also feature on Topic 5: //The Cold War// as well as Paper 3. Here is the specified content for Paper 3:

**Civil Rights:**  Your study of Castro should be undertaken in particular depth. Wider reading/consultation with a range of sources is essential. This unit is as much about //how// you learn at Higher Level as it is about //what// you learn 
 * (Paper 3) Syllabus specified content:**
 * //Cold War in either Canada or one Latin American country: reasons for foreign and domestic policies and their implementation//
 * //Populist leaders in Latin America: rise to power; characteristics of populist regimes; social, economic and political policies; the treatment of opposition; successes and failures (suitable examples could be Perón, Vargas or any relevant Latin American leader)//
 * //T////he Cuban Revolution: political, social, economic causes; impact on the region//
 * //Rule of Fidel Castro: political, economic, social and cultural policies; treatment of minorities; successes and failures//
 * //Military regimes in Latin America: rationale for intervention; challenges; policies; successes and failures//
 * //Role of governments in civil rights movements in the Americas// (Overlaps with Castro's social policy)

 **Possible Exam Questions:**
 * A question about explaining the reasons for Castro's rise to power
 * A question about analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of Castro's domestic policies (social, political, economic)
 * A question about analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of //one aspect// of Castro's domestic policies (social, political or economic)
 * A question about analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of Castro's foreign policy
 * A question about analyzing the impact of the Cold War on Cuba and/or the region
 * A question about analyzing the relationship between America and Cuba
 * A question about analyzing and evaluating Castro's Civil Rghts policies