Raúl Castro

reader the information that one source may lack. While most americans in the 1960’s saw Cuba as a threat and Castro and his revolution as a failure that could lead to the downfall of the U.S., most Cubans supported Castro is his goals for the country and that capitalism was imperial. They saw the reforms put in Cuba as a better lifestyle the previously with Batista in power. The issues the Castro aimed to fix were not even seen by most american people. With bias from both sides we are able…

decisions Fidel Castro made, the government of the revolution legitimized itself and became truly recognized as the standing government of Cuba. Castro declared the year 1961 the Year of Education but much more occurred; in 1961 Castro was able to fight off the United States at Playa Girón and then solidified international alliances with the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, and other socialist nations. While Cuba benefitted from its relations with the Soviet Union and China, Castro…

For the first reason; the main reason of Cuba missile crisis was; the US government wanted to overturn the regime of Fidel Castro. In 1959, the Castro came power to overturn the regime of Batista who supported by the US government. The US started to overturn the regime of Castro with the help of members of Organizations of American States. But members just discredited the Castro regime. Later than refugees who are run away from Cuba to US. Refugees went to invade Cuba with the help of…

There are a number of revolutions that we have studied in the second part of the course. However, the two I am focusing on are the Mexican and Cuban revolutions. These revolutions have three main aspects in common: they are both nationalistic revolutions. Secondly, they both are multifaceted- each supported by different people in the social hierarchy such as peasants and students. Lastly, each push for a more equitable society in terms of class and race and attempt to create laws to support…

In April 1898, the United States went to war with Spain. The Spanish-American War was a three months war between America and Spain. There were a lot of reasons why America attacked Spain. The main two reasons were the America claimed to want to help Cuba to get its independence from Spain but it was not true; they wanted to protect their business interests in Cuba; the other reason was the mysterious explosion of U.S.S. Maine ship in Havana Harbor. In Cuba people were tyrannized by Spain;…

and the sediment from the floods helped fertilize the land. For his own benefit, Castro made the decision to go to war with Cuba’s dictator at the time to gain control of the country. It was a successful plan, that did not only change Castro’s life, but also the people’s lives. Paraphrased KU 9/21 Castro promised to uncover the return to power plans of the past dictator, Batista. .Paraphrased KU 9/21 Even though Castro almost brought the world to a nuclear war, people still thought he was a…

Matter of fact what is an embargo?An Embargo is a ban on trade that was made official with a certain country.The United States has an embargo with Cuba but why?The embargo was made official in the year of 1962.The embargo was placed because when Fidel Castro got obtained power in the year of 1959 and transfer a amount over one billion U.S property on a island. This embargo was placed by president John F.Kennedy now years later the new president of the United States wants to get rid of this…

Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez sets the story of a murder in a small town in Bolivia. The novel takes place in the 1950s, with parallels of political characters such as Santiago to the Cuban regime under Batista and the Vicario bothers to Fidel Castro, Marquez creates an allegory for the rise and fall of left wing Latino governments. Left wing governments, in this context, aim to create equality through regulations while right wing governments govern with the ideology of every man for himself…

The Spanish-American war occurred when spanish colonies between the Western Pacific Ocean and Latin America wanted to gain independence from Spain. War began when Cuba revolted from the Spanish government of Spain in February 1995. The United States, (which avoided foreign affairs and followed the Monroe Doctrine), involved themselves militarily once America’s investments in Cuban companies became a risk. President William McKinley did not want to involve the young nation into a war, however…

The 1954 Guatemalan Coup d’etat was a covert operations mission carried out by the CIA, ordered by president Eisenhower. Their goal was to evict President Jacobo Arbenz from Guatemalan power. Because america feared that Arbenz was sympathetic of soviet Communism. And there was no way the mighty Americans of the first world we’re going to let the socialist soviets of the second world take over guatemala and hinder america’s stake and business in Guatemala. As well as the physical and financial…