Cuban History: The Cuban Revolution

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The Cuban Revolution took place between the years 1953-1959. The revolution, technically, started in 1952 when Fulgencio Batista took power in Cuba, again. Batista had previously been an army sergeant in Cuba from 1921-1940 and president from 1940-1944; however, with these new elections in 1952, Batista was certain that he was going to lose, so he then decided to take power.
Fidel Castro would’ve most likely won a seat in their “Congress” if the elections would’ve been done, but since they weren’t done he didn’t win anything. So he was enraged and began to plot a way to overthrow Batista.
This then led to the official start of the revolution. On July 26th, 1953, near 6:00, Fidel Castro led a group of about 120 rebels to the second largest

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