1. Cuba

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

3. 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

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

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

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

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