The Development of Crisis in 1962 in Cuba
Before Castro's revolution, the U.S mostly controlled Cuba's economy.
Castro however decided that he was going to make his businesses bigger
to make more money for him and the Cuban people this made the U.S mad
and they hit back by refusing to buy Cuban sugar, which was Cuba's
biggest import this was the start of the U.S bad relationship with
Cuba which was the start of the developing of the crises.
However when the U.S refused to buy the Cuban sugar Castro turned to
the U.S.S.R who then decided to buy the sugar in the soviet Cuban
trade agreement which was if the U.S.S.R had the Cuban sugar off of
Cuba then Cuba should return that for their oil and machinery. This
therefore made the crises develop more, as now the relationship
between the superpowers U.S.S.R and U.S.A was worse and the crises was
beginning between them.
In December 1961 Castro declared himself a Marxist. The result was
that the U.S expelled Cuba from the organisation of American states.
The U.S.A thought that Cuba had become a soviet satellite state, which
meant that they thought that Cuba had, became communist on there own
doorstep. This made the crises worse as now the U.S was not happy that
this was happening and yet again were afraid of a domino theory
happening which was were they believed surrounding country's would
also fall to communism.
Now that the crises was becoming worse the U.S.S.R gave Cuba weapons
in which to defend itself these included MIG 21, IL-28, Bombers,
S.A.M's and SA-18 missiles. The other reason for why the U.S.S.R gave
these weapons to Cuba was because this way the U.S.S.R could have a
base in Cuba only 90 miles away from the U.S.A giving them first
strike capability like the U.S.A had already done in turkey were they
had put missiles. This was making the crises worse as now it was about
to turn into a so-called "hot war".
Even though Cuba knew that the U.
blow for the US as they had invested a great deal of money into Cuban
The main reason for the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba was the change to communism. The January 1, 1959 , the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country for the safety of the Dominican Republic ( Goode, Stephen 75). Fidel Castro and his guerrilla warriors overthrew the former government dictated by Batista. Over the next couple of weeks , Castro established a new government and on February 16 was officially declared premier ( Finkelstein , Norman H. 127). The United States accepted this new ...
Along with the above mention things, the U.S. disrupted trade with Europe and outright requested that Europe not trade with Cuba. Also during this period, the CIA began to plan assassination operations against Cuban Leaders, and have eight separate plots to assassination Castro (Perez 252).
The United States was interested in attaining Cuba for economic purposes and eventually they did. This created chaos between Cuban elites/whites and Americans. Americans brought back the Cubans that had been in exile in .America to rule the country. Their policies discriminated against the Afro-Cubans. In a way all Cubans were discriminated against by the Americans.
The lack of strategic planning of the invasion by the United States government lead to the failure at the attempt to overthrow the Cuban government. The United States had originally attempted to overthrow the Cuban government which was lead by Fidel Castro by sending in armed Cuban exiles to southwest Cuba in 1961. This action ultimately led to anti Cuban-U.S. actions. While debates were taking place in the United Nations Security Council, Cuba attempted to condemn the United States' action but failed due to a United States Veto. Then, during the Eisenhower administration, the CIA began to train Cuban exiles to overthrow the Cuban government to help out the people living there. Although, it was not Eisenhower who pushed forward with the plan, but was Richard Nixon. This amount of involvement led Nixon to fear that the magnitude of his involvement would surface and he would then be blamed for the failure of the plan. The original plan, which was planned to land the exile brigade somewhere around the old colonial city of Trinidad, Cuba. The government realized that the landing at this particular spot gave them many options. The government believed that most people living in the area were opposed to the Castro government and would not mind them being there. They also were hopeful because they could use the mountainous region to their advantage if the landing plan were to fail. Soon everything was in place, but then the flight crews received a call from Washington ordering them stand down for an indefinite period of time. It seemed like the United States government carefully looked over the planned and weighed their options. Unknown to them was that there were bigger problems to be faced.
1. The Cuban Revolution was supposed to install a Marxist paradise, lifting all citizens to the same strata and abolishing traditional separations based on class, gender and race. In this brave new utopia, all bodies, regardless of skin tone, would work together to build a prosperous nation, in which all had an equal stake. In reality, however, the revolution was almost immediately co-opted by what Sawyer describes as the Creole elite. Cuba had had a long history of tense racial relations and despite the massive social and economic upheaval brought on by the revolution, this entrenched racism was not erased by the waving of the red flag, only obscured by it.
...he Cuban missiles in exchange for a promise by U.S. leaders not to invade Cuba. The
In order to fully understand why the Cuban Revolutionary War occurred, it is important to know what was happening in Cuba before the war, what was influencing Cuban decisions at that time, and what precipitated the revolution where eventually Fidel Castro came into power. In 1933 General Gerardo Machado ruled the tyrannical government in Cuba, but his regime began to disintegrate. Enter a young Cuban Army Officer, Fulgencio Batista who had caught the attention of the Cuban people. Batista began a campaign to take over the rule of Cuba. His effort was successful as he allied with unions and student groups and because the Machado regime had effectively fallen apart. Batista was Cuba’s president in the early 1940’s and ran again for President in 1952. Before the elections could be completed, Batista was afraid he would lose the election, so he seized power without warning and cancelled the elections.
The Cuban revolution was one that transformed Cuba into an independent socialist society. This revolution sent a message around the globe. The message: “ Socialism can be achieved and capitalism, with its culture stripping mechanism’s can be supplemented”. However, the revolution did leave its mark on Cuba. This can be seen in the events that took place during the early stages of the revolution. The effects of the revolution were positive for certain sections of the population and negative for others.
Cuba is an island located in the Caribbean Ocean, 150 km south of Key West, Florida. Before the revolution, Cuba was stepping foot into democratic territory, allowing the people more freedom and respect for human rights. Fidel Castro, the future leader of Cuba, had other plans, soon to be assuming leadership of Cuba. He revolted against the current Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Though it was not successful the first time around, Castro took power of the government from Fulgencio. Soon after, Cuba became communist country under Castro’s rule, thus severing ties with the United States. The majority of Cubans did not want communism yet, it brought more order and less civilian crimes. Despite the U.S government’s wishes, Cuba’s leaders chose to become a communist country versus a democratic one, however it was more beneficial for the people of Cuba.
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The cuban people had a very good reason to revolt. Fulgencio Batista was a cruel ruler.Batista was a cruel leader who didn’t care about his people, just himself and money. He was not very supportive of his people and their wishes. The Cuban people had asked for a change before, and Batista refused to listen. It seemed that Batista almost enjoyed antagonizing his people. He formed profitable links to the organized crime groups in Cuba, just so he could antagonize his people. The fact that he was doing this was a strong reason why they revolted.Cuba was in a very poor time when people did not have much money, and Batista did...
However, the US played a much larger role in Cuba’s past and present than the building of casinos and the introduction of the first taints of corruption. In the past, even before Batista, Americans were resented by Cubans because the Americans made a lot of Cuba’s decisions. Under Batista, 80% of Cuban imports came from the US, and the US controlled at least 50% of sugar, utilities, phones and railroads. If Cuba was a business in the stock markets, then the US would have been close to owning 50% of its shares. When combined with a long history of US-backed leaders, and US involvement, it is understandable that Cubans begrudged the Americans....
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