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    morally. Ralph’s simple show of emotion serves to symbolize his realization that man cannot attain enough good to eliminate the darkness in the heart. Just as Ralph and Jack fictitiously represent the darkness of man’s heart, so Mao Tse Tung and Fidel Castro portray mankind’s evil…

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    beliefs regardless of the risk. Satrapi’s parents understood how dangerous Iran was for such an outspoken girl and sent her away to Europe but even this did not halt Satrapi’s courage. To this day, Majane Satrapi is outspoken and unafraid just like Fidel…

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    This event was the turning point in previous relations with the United States under Batista. Castro began pulling Cuba further away from American influence and instead starting aligning with the former Soviet Union. During this time the Central Intelligence Agency was already planning and conducting intelligence gathering activities on Cuba. John…

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    Washington D.C. for his visit, people were informed that Trump had met Justin’s father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former Prime Minister of Canada, in 1981, when Pierre was receiving the Family of Man award. The relationship Pierre Trudeau developed with Fidel Castro in 1976, has paved a pathway for his son Justin to do the same. During the time period we are all in now, where the President of one of the most powerful nations in the world has become a loose cannon as to speak, Canadian Prime…

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    involving the United States and the Soviet Union regarding the installment of Soviet airstrike missiles in Cuba. This situation was globally televised and was the nearest the Cold War had ever come to a nuclear war. Tension between superpowers, Fidel Castro, and the Bay of Pigs Invasion led this event to unfold as it did and the event took the Western bloc in an entirely new direction. Leading up to the crisis, the tension between the United States and Russia heightened because each superpower…

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    Kennedy, it’s very possible that he had help from Cuba because Oswald was a strong Fidel Castro supporter, the CIA was trying to assasinate Cuban leaders and Castro warned the Kennedy…

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    War in 1898 the Cuban people were poverty or got rich. As some can see Cuba is not as advanced as it should be in 2014. Population Cuba’s population is 11.2 million people. Cuba’s language is Spanish. Cuban’s citizens have been leaving ever since Fidel Castro’s election. The people are exiles. Many people made a new life in the United…

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    Before Castro was in power the Cubans grew weary of the way the country was being run. In 1952, Fulgencio Batista came into power as a dictatorship with the U.S. backing him up. Unfortunately for Batista, the people of Cuba did not like him very much. Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and Che Guevara led a revolution against Batista. Together they started a guerilla campaign against Batista’s government…

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    The invasion was an attempt to overthrow the communist leader Fidel Castro. It took place on the day April 17, 1961 and lasted until April 19, 1961. It was not the first time that America had tried to get rid of Fidel Castro, nor would it be the last. There would end up being 638 attempts to kill Fidel Castro (newsela.com). While Castro was leader hundreds of thousands of Cubans fled the country. President Kennedy had the idea to send the Cuban exiles…

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    leader of Cuba in 1959 Fidel Castro took power over Cuba. Eventually Fidel Castro made Cuba under communist society. Since the USSR is communist as well, the Cuban relationship with USSR grew immensely. With high tensions with the Soviets during the cold war, the U.S. did not want Fidel Castro to rule over Cuba. In retaliation, the U.S. invaded Cuba which was known as the Bay Of Pigs Invasion. Nevertheless, the invasion was a failure. The relationship between Fidel Castro and the USSR sparked…

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