I. INTRODUCTION Following the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s‚ the United States shifted its focus to Cuba with the intentions of freeing the country from its communist ideologies and establishing a democratic government. The U.S. government passed the Helms-Burton Act in an attempt to pressurize Cuba into restructuring. Its enactment was controversial‚ provoking immediate and widespread debate around the world as to whether certain provisions of the Act violated international law
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In 1952 Fulgencio Batista became the dictator of Cuba and set forth his governmental policies around the country. One of his main goals was to make Cuba a landmark for investments both domestically and internationally. The business elites of Cuba and United States companies were main clients‚ who would help achieve Batista’s economic endeavors. Once in place‚ many companies focused on sugar‚ which was the main product that benefited Cuban Agriculture. However‚ the sugar business was not working efficiently
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represents atomic bombs‚ while during the Cuban missile crisis Cuba had missiles. Both of these would lead to disaster‚ which brings me to the causes of the Cuban missile crisis. The first cause was the Bay of Pigs Invasion. This was when Fidel Castro led a revolution to take over Cuba and set up a socialist (a form of communism) government. President Eisenhower than approved a secret plan to train an army of Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. He sent about 1‚200 Cuban exiles to get Cuban civilians to join
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The Spanish-American war was started when Cuba tried to become independent from Spain. Spain brutally tried to keep Cuba in line‚ which was on display for the American public by several newspapers. Spain sent their Cuban prisoners to concentration camps to stop the Cubans from making their guerrilla-type attacks against them. The US feared for the many Americans living in Cuba at the time‚ so they sent a ship called the USS Maine to Cuba’s Havana Harbor to keep the Americans safe in January 25th
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The metaphor "no man is an island" can be applied to the nation of Cuba because this phrase means that people can’t thrive when they are isolated from other people. It can be proven that when they are isolated they can’t thrive like they can when they come in contact with the other countries. For example‚ Cubans had to rely upon the United States to conquer or defeat the Spanish. During the early colonial years‚ Cuba had served as a primary embarkation point for explorers such as Hernan
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Cuban Missile Crisis: Outcomes 4) Right after the Cuban Missile Crisis the trade relations between the US and Cuba begin to deteriorate. The then president‚ John F. Kennedy‚ decided to ban trade with any item with Cuba except for non-subsidized food and medicine. And then a year later ban financial transaction with US citizens to Cuban citizens. It was basically an embargo that surprisingly still stands to this day. In 1980 an event happened that 10‚000 Cubans ran into the Peruvian embassy‚ and
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unwillingness to accept the status quo in Cuba. Unalterably opposed to Fidel Castro‚ the administration organized an ill-fated invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro refugees in April 1961. After the “Bay of Pigs” fiasco‚ the Central Intelligence Agency tried to assassinate Castro and sponsored covert operations against Cuba‚ the Department of State organized an economic and political boycott of the country‚ and the Pentagon prepared and rehearsed a full-scale invasion of Cuba. The Soviet Union had become deeply
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The Embargo Act was first passed in 1807 which basically made all exports from the United States illegal. It was sponsored by President Thomas Jefferson and enacted by Congress. The United States imposed an arms embargo on Cuba on March 14‚ 1958 during the armed conflict between rebels led by Fidel Castro. Castro socialist government finally came to power on January 1‚ 1959. In May 1960‚ the Cuban government began to openly purchase regular armaments from the Soviet Union. In July
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the first letter‚ Khrushchev first appealed to Kennedy in a thankful tone. The letter is assumed to be a personal letter from Khrushchev attempting to convince Kennedy to not invade Cuba and end the blockade; in return‚ he would remove the missile sites in Cuba and the Russians would stop shipping weaponries to Cuba. Khrushchev also described communists as peaceful and hard-working people who wanted nothing more than a diplomatic relationship with USA. Robert McNamara once quoted a part of the letter
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1) List the circumstances that lead to a change in Castro’s stand regarding Russia in 1959. On February 16‚ 1959‚ Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba‚ and accepted the position on the condition that the Prime Minister’s powers be increased. Between 15 and 26 April Castro visited the U.S. with a delegation of representatives‚ hired a public relations firm for a charm offensive and presented himself as a "man of the people". U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower avoided meeting Castro‚ but
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