interest of both the US and Cuba to bury the hatchet. The US and Cuba have had bad blood since the 1960s when the Eisenhower Administration banned trading between Cuba and US except medicine and food. There were many reasons for the embargo like communism in Cuba‚ Cuba taxing American products heavily‚ and Cuba allowing the Soviet Union to build missiles bases in Cuba which ultimately resulted in the Cuban Missle Crisis. It is absurd in today’s age to be scared of communism in Cuba when the US trades with
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Bastista government Cuba suffered from immense poverty. Poor education and healthcare contributed to the country’s poverty and many people were unhappy. On July 26th Fidel Castro launched a revolutionary movement that eventually led to him obtaining power of the Cuban government. Under Castro’s government‚ relations with the United States were strained. The Bay of Pigs and the Helms-Burton Act of 1992 were two major events that took place regarding the United States and Cuba. The Special Period
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Looking back at the history of Cuba‚ there was a time when the country was quite prosperous. This was before Fidel Castro came into power. During the Batista government regime‚ Cuba had a strong economy and exported many goods. However‚ Castro started a rebellion and fought against the Batista and soon took over. Now‚ when people hear about Fidel Castro‚ they think about the negative aspects of his government regime: oppression‚ extreme socialist views‚ lack of food and other necessities for living
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The native Amerindian population of Cuba began to decline after the European discovery of the island by Christopher COLUMBUS in 1492 and following its development as a Spanish colony during the next several centuries. Large numbers of African slaves were imported to work the coffee and sugar plantations‚ and Havana became the launching point for the annual treasure fleets bound for Spain from Mexico and Peru. Spanish rule eventually provoked an independence movement and occasional rebellions that
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knowledge of the government behavior. Allison analyzed the Cuban Missile crisis by categorizing them into three events: 1) The deployment of Soviet offensive missiles in Cuba; 2) The imposition of a US; and 3) the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. In the first place‚ one the reasons why the Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba was because they wanted to increase as a country their power since at that time the countries with superpower was the US and the Soviet Union. And‚ by placing these nuclear
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Cuba played a significant part in the development of the Cold War. With some of the events that were inspired and executed from Cuba‚ there was a sense of a Third World War. With the new leader Castro and his ideology and philosophies‚ the Missile Crisis‚ and Bay of Pigs it is easy to see that Cuba played a very significant part in the development of the Cold War. Before Fidel Castro came to power‚ General Batista was gaining American support in response to Castro supporting the USSR and showing
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revolution took place in the 1950s when Cuba was in a politically unstable state and the people were dissatisfied with the oppressive dictatorship under Fulgencio Batista. Discussing the historical context of the Cuban Revolution‚ the wealth disparity and how that impacted the economic circumstances‚ and the role of the Soviet Union‚ one can find that Cuba’s Special Period was a result of economic dependence. We can see that before and after the revolution‚ that Cuba was dependent on another larger state
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Cuban missile crisis. In October‚ an American U2 plane flew over Cuba and secretly photographed nuclear missiles made by the soviet union. President Kennedy was shocked and started right away to secretly meet with his advisors to discuss this big problem. He didn’t want the soviet union or cuba to know that he discovered the missiles. After thinking long and hard‚ Kennedy finally made a tough decision to place a naval blockade around cuba. He did this to make sure the soviet union couldn’t bring in
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Revolution on both Cuban society and the wider Latin American world” The Cuban Revolution of 1959 has profoundly shaken the economic‚ social and political foundations of Cuba itself‚ however its impact on Latin America was not as predominant. The inauguration of Fidel Castro over Fulgencio Batista was the beginning of a communist regime in Cuba‚ which has now raised the living standards of everyday Cubans to one of the highest in Latin America. As well as this‚ Latin America has been subject to countless
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to expand their empire. Cuba was seen as the perfect destination‚ full of tourism and ready mass industrialization. The mafia spread its business of gambling and drug trade to Cuba‚ specifically Havana. With large amounts of money comes large amounts of influence. The question is how much influence did the American mafia have in Cuba during Batista’s presidency? Would the country today be different if the American mafia had not interfered in the politics and business in Cuba? An answer can be reached
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