Communism. Two years after he became President a major Cold War crisis erupted involving the island of Cuba‚ which was very close to the USA mainland. In the early 1960s‚ Cuba had become a Communist state and was led by Fidel Castro. Cuba began to develop close ties with the USSR and this caused problems for the new USA President. Kennedy and his military advisors planned an invasion of Cuba involving Cuban exiles living in the USA. This took place at the Bay of Pigs but was a complete disaster
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of American ballistic missile in Turkey and Italy with the subsequent deployment of the Soviet ballistic missile in Cuba. This conflict result as the beginning of the Cold War to grow into the full-scale nuclear war. In Cuban Missile crisis‚ the Soviets had begun to build facilities to deploy medium-range and intermediate-range missiles with nuclear capability on the island of Cuba‚ just 90 miles off the United States. The government of Washington‚ with President John F. Kennedy at its head‚ was
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. 4 CHAPTER 2 The Colonial Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 CHAPTER 3 The Road to Independence . . . Premium 105771 Words 424 Pages The History of Cuba Fidel Castro - Biography of Fidel Castro Fidel Castro was born on August 14‚ 1927 in Mayari‚ Cuba. His parents were relatively wealthy and owned a sugarcane plantation. During his childhood‚ he attended private Catholic Schools and graduated to attend the University of Havana in 1945. His teachers
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change in the lives of Cuban women. I grouped the documents into 3 categories which were: people against liberation‚ men who approve liberation‚ and women who approve their new rights. I would like to see an extra document from a female politician in Cuba who is against liberation. This would help realize that not only are some Cuban men again liberation‚ but a female Cuban politician is as well. There are a great amount of people against women’s liberation. In document 3‚ a male Cuban revolutionary
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Research Paper on Ché Guevara | Globalization | 11-10-2012 | Table of contents Introduction 2 Revolution 3 Ché Guevara’s existence‚ and relationship with revolution 4 The Cuban Revolution 8 The Influence of Ché Guevara on Latin America 12 Conclusion 17 Bibliography 18 Introduction I decided to write this research paper because we were assigned to find an issue or subject within Latin America to write about. One of the most widely known and influential revolutionary
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Missile Crisis of October 1962. The Soviets had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba‚ just 90 miles off the coast of the United States. U.S. armed forces were at their highest state of readiness and demanded that the Soviet Union remove these missiles and imposed a naval blockade on Cuba‚ threatening to sink any Soviet ships that approached the island without permitting their cargoes to be inspected. Soviet field commanders in Cuba were authorized to use tactical nuclear weapons if invaded by the U.S. The
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HIST 8 lecture notes 5.2.13 US-Latin America Policy 1823-1946 * Increasing US influence and intervention * After the removal of the Spanish monarchy’s control in the Americas‚ Cuba and Puerto Rico are the last vestiges of Spanish control in the western hemisphere * International rivalries and how they play out in this hemisphere during this period is important * Once the civil war is over‚ the US‚ as it is industrializing‚ is concerned with what they termed “our backyard”
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what happened in Guatemala and he saw how the US was a “bad guy.” Che then became a Marxist and took his ideas to Cuba. Che and Castro started the Cuban Revolution‚ Che teamed up with Fidel Castro and together they were able to take down the oppressive dictator in Cuba; Fulgencio Batista. Che and Castro used guerilla warfare to defeat Batista and his troops. Castro became the leader of Cuba and Che was his second in command. Che was an extremely violent person during and after the Cuban Revolution.
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independence‚ yellow journalism in the role of publishing the De Lome letter‚ and the USS Maine sinking (Murrin 747‚748). A consequence of the war was imperialism‚ that came along with the Treaty of Paris‚ which gave the United States the Philippines‚ Cuba‚ Puerto Rico‚ Hawaii‚ and Guatemala (Roberts). Reformation of the U.S. Navy and Army were made because it was not prepared for this war and lost more men to disease and exposure than to the enemy (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). There was
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lasted from April 1898 through to August 1898 was fought over the issue of the liberation of Cuba‚ a Spanish colony that was suffering under the brutality of Spain’s authority. “The war essentially grew out of Cuba’s struggle for independence. Since the early 19th century‚ many Americans had watched with sympathy the series of revolutions that ended Spanish authority throughout the Americas” ‚ yet it was in Cuba where Spain kept their autocracy alive. “The reason surrounding this was Spain’s quest of
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