Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviets were building bases for nuclear missiles in Cuba...said to be the point in which the cold war came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict...
Cuba was upset with the US because they were involved with invasions in cuba such as the Bay Pigs Invasion...around August 1962 is when the US started to suspect the Soviets of building missile bases in Cuba..
Nikita Khrushchev-he had the idea of placing nuclear missiles in Cuba...wanted to counter the lead of the US in developing strategic missiles...also wanted to protect Cuba from more US sponsored invasions...
Photographic proof of missile bases under construction were caught by a United States U-2 photoreconnaissance on October 14th...US considered attacking Cuba but instead settled on a military quarantine of Cuba..
On October 23,1962 President Kennedy signed proclamation 3504-authorization to put the military quarantine in order...
Soviets secretly agreed to resolve the crisis...John F, Kennedy and United Nations Secretary-General U. Thant reached and agreement with soviets that they would dismantle all offensive weapons and return them to the Soviet Union and the US would take their missiles out of Turkey within 6 months and agreed to never invade the Soviet Union
Fidel Castro
Castro didnt like how the americans were treating Cuba so he joined the anit-american trip to Bogota, Columbia...He got involved with the Cuban revolution to overthrow Batista after he graduated in 1950 with a Doctor of Laws Degree... Batista attacked Moncada Barracks and killed innocent civilians and that ticked
people off...Castro was not executed after being captured...Castro wanted to overthrow Batista and he and all the other exiles from the Moncada Barracks known as the 26th movement...
Castro needed new tactics if he was going to overthrow Batista...They planned to use underground Guerrilla Warfare Tactics...Castro really wanted to defeat Batista because he thought the US had too much influence on Batista...
Operation Verano was the attack Batista formed to crush Castro and any other anti-governmental groups...Castro's forces defeated the entire battallion... Castro ordered three columns to invade central Cuba after Operation Verano ended...
Castro became the prime minister of Cuba on February 16, 1959..."Revolution now, election later"...
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