Cuba

Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban dictator Batista Revolutionaries are not born, they are made by poverty, inequality, and dictatorship”

Castro has Seized American and British owned oil refineries Broke up commercial farms and divided the land between landless peasants By the 1950s, the U.S. controlled 80 percent of Cuban utilities, 90 percent of Cuban mines, close to 100 percent of the country’s oil refineries, 90 percent of its cattle ranches, and 40 percent of the sugar industry. American Sugar companies owned 75% of crop land in Cuba and appealed to the US government for help US stopped trading sugar with Cuba

Bay of Pigs The US trained and armed Cuban exiles to over thrown Castro On April 17 1961 the US helped the exiles invade Cuba They were defeated embarrassingly and President Kennedy took blame

Cuban Missile Crisis The US placed nuclear weapons in Turkey pointed at the USSR

The USSR brought nuclear weapons to Cuba and pointed them toward the US

The US set up a blockade of Cuba and missiles were taken down