Raúl Castro

In the early 1960s, the island nation of Cuba became the Cold War 's most dangerous point in its history. In 1959 Communist leader Fidel Castro (born in 1926) took power in Cuba after helping lead the mission to overthrow President Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (1901-1973). Castro created close relationships to the Soviet Union. This naturally was a positive thing to have a good friend located so close to the United States. John F. Kennedy was the president…

relationship remained peaceful. But starting in 1952, Fidel Castro, then a young lawyer and activist, petitioned for the overthrow of Batista. Who Castro accused of being corrupt and a tyrant. However, Castro 's lawful dispute was rejected by the Cuban court system. After deciding that the Cuban government could not be replaced through legal means, Castro shifted to launch an armed revolution. The Cuban Revolution then started in 1952 and Castro started his voyage to overthrow the government.…

economic inequality is the cause of social strain and can only be eliminated through the nationalization of private property and businesses (Dhar, 2014).. The year 1953 marked the beginning of a significant time period for the Cuban nation as Fidel Castro united with his allies to overthrow the former Cuban President, Fulgencio Batista (McKelvey, 2014). Batista was detested by many of the…

Article for 60-70's 1962 Szczecin Military Parade Gone Wrong! Soviet Union Tried to Cover it up for YEARS... October 9th, 1962, the long awaited parade of the Szczecin military was traveling down the street. Little did anyone expect such a tragedy to occur. The year of 1962 in Poland was already a tense and hectic year. With the growing tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the threat of war between the Western and Eater Bloc, ideas for lightening the mood were needed. With this is…

JFK wanted the Cubans to go back to Cuba because he didn’t want them in America anymore. They went to fight back and not be exiles anymore. The reason why the Cubans got kicked out of Cuba, is because after the Cuban revolution in 1959 led by Fidel Castro, a lot of refugees came with an idea that the new government wouldn’t last very long, and the stay in the U.S. with the Cubans was temporary. When Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK, many people were asking “Why did JFK get assassinated?” Well here’s…

In between the years 1890 to 1897 many important events during the time impacted Cuba how they were and how they are today. Many important people were present during that time like Jose Marti and Anthony Maceo who were leaders in a revolutionary party. During those years of 1890-1897 Cuba was important because of Jose Marti, Anthony Maceo, and the start Cuban independence war which led to freedom. Jose Marti was an important person during that time when it came to the revolutionary party. He…

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 war soon took notice of this young lawyer by the name of Fidel Castro. A young senator from Massachusetts soon began talking about Castro’s removal and how it could be done. (John Simk in, Bay of Pigs, Spartacus Educational) This young senator was our…

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 Castro was born August 13th, 1926. He was the 5th of 9 children, but at a very young age he made international news, which could be a foreshadowing of sorts. He attended a Latin American student conference in Colombia and took part in the violent protests against Americans. He started his political life early, when he ran for Congress at the age of 26. This never took place as Fulgencio Batista took power in a coup. Fidel strongly opposed Batista and went as far as armed Guerrila attacks…

The Special Period, it is a period of time where 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.…