Music of Cuba

teach them about immigration. Making the PowerPoint was interesting because I did a lot of research about the 4 different waves immigration from Cuba and I found a lot of useful information. It was quite shocking to see how many people fled to the united states during those times. I had firsthand experience with immigration myself because I grew up in Cuba and it's not bad place at all at least not for me but for my parents it was different story. My parents growing up were poor and struggled a…

On December 31st, 1958, the small island nation of Cuba was ablaze with battling between the U.S installed government forces of Fulgencio Batista and the revolutionary forces of the July 26th movement, their namesake coming from a previous attack against the Batista regime that had failed. The very next day saw an end to fighting, and a young Cuban lawyer emerged victorious. (NSA, Bay of Pigs C hronology) Though relatively unknown prior to the Cuban Revolution, both world superpowers of the cold…

My president John F. Kennedy affected the cold war the greatest out of all the presidents. John F. Kennedy once stated “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty” he kept true to this throughout the cold war especially his presidency. He used his foreign policy, Flexible response to help to beat and succeed the events that took place…

In the book, Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba, author David Sartorius focuses on the connections between race and political loyalty in Cuba, during the 1800s. He looks at the ways that many Afro-Cubans support Spanish colonialism, because of appealing bargaining tactics of Spanish leaders. The Spaniards only used this tactic, when they needed support of the African community in Cuba. Many even use loyalty to try to obtain more rights and inclusion in Cuban…

Not only does the bald eagle symbolize America, but it also signifies taking other countries under our wing. Towards the beginning of 1898, America and Spain went to war in Cuba due to poor treatment of the Cuban people. America started to be seen as one of the most powerful countries in the world. Across the Pacific Ocean, eleven thousand soldiers marched into the capital of the Philippines, Manila. The United States had three choices in regards to the Philippines, and we decided to annex them.…

Ambitious leaders Throughout history there have always been leaders with strong ambitions and some of their ambitions were worth the price and the others were not. For people like Cesar Chavez, who was able to fulfill his ambition, the price was worth it because it helped a lot of people. On the other hand, people like Che Guevara and Robert E. Lee’s ambitions were not worth the price because it resulted in not being able to fulfill those ambitions. Guevara was killed and Lee lost the war.…

(“Fidel” Newsmakers). These policies were significant to Cuba and improved its economy greatly, and some other of his policies much like this one raised the literacy rate in Cuba to 96%. Castro also had an idea of seeking a “revolution” of sorts. This revolution would bring about many socialistic ideas about in Cuba, and was harshly opposed by the United States as “the revolution became slowly radicalized” with “the…

people Cuba spent years recuperating and trying to revitalize their country. The first half enduring the onslaught of repercussions that was affecting their country due to collapse of a certain union which Cuba was involved in heavily. The second half will show how Cuba was able to recover from the onslaught. The purpose of this paper is to explain a series of events that occurred during the Special Period which made Cuba what it is today. Before investing the entire essay about how Cuba lived…

Che’s personal values included: political honesty, equality, radicalism, and the willingness to sacrifice for a cause. As well as his position of power in Cuba. To many of the present-day rebels active in anticapitalistic movements, Che is not only a radical but, given his opposition to the traditional pro-Moscow Communist parties, he is a revolutionary who shares their own ideals in pursuit of revolutionary…

Cuba and the Missile Crisis The Cuban missile crisis can be examined in a 3 different parts. One, the form of communications between the United States and the Soviets, who did both countries go about communicating with one another? Maybe the communications between the two were not as clear or if there were constant communications between the countries the crisis would never have occurred. Second, eventually communications between the two countries stopped and none reached out to begin…