1. US & Cuba-1960s

2. Castro’s Policies Communism Government Structure End of Moderates
Issue of Economy
US Investment
US Owned Industries
Industrialization
Embargo

3. Why Communism Sovietization Pragmatist Command Economy
Cuban Communist Party
Anti-American vs. Anti-Soviet

4. Castro Early Foreign Relations
US Situation
Land Reform
Soviet Response
Anti-American

5. Bay of Pigs Eisenhower JFK Cuban Invasion Bay of Pigs US effects USSR
Cuban Reaction

9. Cuban Missile Crisis Bay of Pigs Reaction Missile situation
Berlin Wall
Warnings
U2 Spy Planes
Executive Committee of Nat’l Security

13. Options for Action
Wuwei
Diplomacy
Force
Deal
Blockade

15. Blockade Pros/Cons Announcement of Quarantine War/Force Soviet Ships
Deal with Khrushchev

18. Effects of CMC US victory Cuban pawn Hotline and Thaw
Soviet Union/China
US/France & Canada

19. How did Castro Retain Power?
Obstacles
Charisma
Media and Oppression
Army
Exiles
Popular Policies
Soviet “Help”