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Hitler's Aims:
Political: anti-democratic, anti-communist, authoritarian
Economic: autarky, removal of foreign interest
Social + Cultural: traditional values, conservative and pro-family, creating a "great" Germany, "lebensraum", nationalist
Racial/religious: anti-semitic, aryan supremacy (wanted to create a biologically superior German race), separated church & state

Castro's Aims:
Political: end US control over Cuba, communist from end-1961 onwards, authoritarian, anti-democratic
Economic: nationalisation, relativity closed economy, dependency on the USSR
Social + Cultural: nationalist, 'cubana'
Racial/religious: officially atheist, restricted religious practices because it contradicted Marxist philosophy

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Hitler's Domestic Policy - Social Impact:

Castro's Domestic Policy - Social Impact:
- education and health improved significantly
- Cuba achieved near universal literacy, 1961 "the year of education", "literacy brigades" went to rural areas to build schools and teach mostly illiterate peasants
- "If you don't don't know, learn. If you know, teach"
- Castro viewed education as key to a revolutionary social / cultural transformation
- diseases eradicated + widespread access to sanitation
- lower infant mortality rates and longer life expectancies

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Hitler's Economic Policies:
- divided into 4-Year plans
4YP #1:
Aim - to reduce unemployment.
- manpower over machines, expelled women from the workforce (+ marriage allowances)
- building of autobahns etc
- seemed extremely successful but essentially a manipulation of who constituted the workforce
4YP #2:
Aim - to achieve autarky
- more emphasis on increasing production
- "Strength through Joy" program encouraging group leisure to facilitate more productivity

Castro's Economic Policies:
- land redistribution --> state farms became dominant form of agriculture (The Law of Agrarian Reform 1959, and second law 1963)
- nationalisation of industry, expropriated American-owned companies
- increased wages
- government took over banks
- economic problems increased due to managers fleeing to the US in 1959-61, US trade embargo
- 1964: Soviet agreements begin, improving sugar prices and production
- Operation Mongoose: the CIA attempted to sabotage the Cuban economy --> encouraged USSR dependance
1968 - "Revolutionary Offensive", believed workers would work together and increase productivity for a common good --> militarisation of labour (this failed greatly!!)

Comparison:
Hitler's econ. policies rooted in the idea of a "greater German state", achieving autarky and focused on increasing production and exployment, wheras Castro's econ. policies were much more radical-left such as his use of state-owned farms. They were similar in that both included a lot of state-control and intervention, and both were to a large extent failures mainly because
• the lack of trade that occurred (in Germany due to pursuing autarky and anti-semitism trade boycotts, in Cuba due to US embargo and political constraints)
• the lack of genuine increases in production (in Germany due to how 'manpower over machinery' and removing women from the workforce only increased employment statistics but did not help actual production, in Cuba due to the failures of the "Revolutionary Offensive" and workers did not intentionally try to work for the common good)

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Castro's Foreign Policy
1961 - US cuts off diplomatic ties with Cuba
1961 - Cuba becomes a socialist state
Bay of Pigs --> unified Cuba, solidifies connection with USSR + antagonism with USA
1962 - Cuba develops good relations with the USSR
1975 - Cuban troops dispatched to Angola to support Marxist govt against South African backed UNITA opposition
1977 - Cuban troops dispatched to support Marxist Ethiopia in the Ogaden War with Somalia
1977 - Limited economic ties btw US - Cuba renewed
1979 - Cuba supports Marxist movements across Latin America e.g Nicaragua

Castro's Foreign Policy - Aims
- breaking Cuba’s historical ties with the United States
- attaining independence in the foreign affairs it chose to participate in (i.e participate voluntarily as a great power patron)
- took advantage of the communist wave (even if not 100% committed to the belief)
Extent of success?
partial! they did severe historical ties with the USA completely, however did not become independent in terms of foreign affairs as they were hugely dependent on the USSR until its collapse, and never became the great power Castro wanted Cuba to become and became more of a pawn under the support of the USSR. Moreover, Cuba's attempt to spread communism to the rest of the third world was not a huge success; even though they were successful in Angola and Ethiopia, communism did not prevail in most Latin American states. With the fall of the USSR, this was arguably an outdated foreign policy goal.