Cuban Missile Crisis

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Cuban communists and their loyalties transferred gradually to Castro, completely by 1958. Most Cubans idolized Castro, supported his government and at least accepted his measures. He claimed to have a desire to help the poor and said he would have found it impossible to follow the dictates of a single philosophy. In 1960 Castro was swiftly pushing Cuba to the left wing, and as a result many Cubans left . There was so much opposition to Castro’s developments that he created a Committee for Defense of the Revolution out of fear of invasion from the US, and internal guerrilla uprisings. Castro had taken away the profit producing properties which had been owned by Americans, and this angered them. In 1898 America gave many benefits to Cuba, it helped modernize Cuban industry, education and medicine and expected loyalty for doing so. Cuba was angered that between 1945 and 1960 they gave more money than all of Latin America combined. At first Americans gave Castro a good assessment, but ...

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was the element of surprise, and that was now gone. Fidel had actually learnt of the invasion at 3:15am that day and prepared an army and rounded up CIA agents and journalists. By the 18th, just the next day, the invasion was doomed. The brigade pleaded with Kennedy for aerial support but he declined. Defeat of the Americans came on the 19th, with 1,100 prisoners left in Cuba. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failure. Kennedy was embarrassed at such a defeat he worried that Khrushchev would think he was timid then Russia might become aggressive and perhaps end up at war. The US’s anticommunist views also created tension. Communism was a serious threat to America. They saw what happened in ...

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