Cuba during the Cold War

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Cuba during the Cold War Bay of Pigs & the Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Revolution In 1959, an armed revolt led by Fidel Castro overthrew the regime of Cuban dictator Batista

Cuba Fidel Castro's anti-American rhetoric and Cuba's movement toward a closer relationship with the Soviet Union, led U.S. officials to conclude that the Cuban leader was a threat to U.S. interests in the Western Hemisphere.

When Castro said this... “I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”

The U.S. Saw This:

Bay of Pigs In March 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the CIA to train and arm a force of Cuban exiles for an armed attack on Cuba. John F. Kennedy inherited this program when he became president in

Bay of Pigs The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a HUGELY unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba by a counter-revolutionaries funded by the CIA, intending to overthrow Cuba’s revolutionary leftist government.

Fast forward to 1962… Khrushchev continues testing nuclear weapons and missiles are discovered in Cuba.

Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962: 13 Days of Tension The closest we got to a nuclear conflict during the Cold War

Context Cuba: Look where it is! Why does that matter?

Is this the whole story?

GEOGRAPHY BOWL!

Turkey The US had been placing missiles in Turkey (borders the USSR) Khrushchev agreed to remove missiles from Cuba, if the US removed them from Turkey. Kennedy agrees…sort of