Fidel Castro And The Cuban Revolution

In 1955 a revolutionary leader came to power in Cuba. His name was Fediel Castro. Castro kicked out the gambling crime bosses out of Cuba, angering those in the US. Castro wanted to be friends with a major power. He first tried to talk to the US. The president at the time, Eisenhower, did not come down to Cuba though. He sent his

In the 1950’s, tourists visited the island of Cuba for its warm beaches, culture and Spanish colonial architecture. But underneath the surface, was a revolution ready to burst through the Cuban people they just needed the right person to lead them. Cuba at this time was run by a Political Dictator named Fulgencio Batista.

The aftermaths of the CIA’s failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, an operation, set in motion by the previous Dwight Eisenhower Administration, were now laid down on Kennedy. The failed operation was a major backslide for the CIA. "The Bay of Pigs fiasco broke the dike," said one report at the time and now senior military leaders wanted to take matters in their own hands. President Kennedy’s administration was accused of being soft on Fidel Castro, a then-new communist leader, who took powers during the 1959 Cuban revolution. With the Cold War

In 1959, Fidel Castro came into power by overthrowing Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and from that moment on the United States was very skeptical about him. They felt this way because they were very much aware of Castro's relationship with the leader

On November 8th 1960 former president John F Kennedy defeated vice president Richard Nixon in a narrow, cut throat election. (History.com) In the mist of the cold war and the tension steadily rising between the US and Soviet Union, President Kennedy was destined to become a major influence on the end result of the tension between communist Russia and the United States. Shortly before Kennedy’s Victory over Nixon, Cuba fell under new leadership and with that leadership communism sat right under the tail of the United States. American’s did not like the idea of communism just 100 feet from our borders so in 1961, the CIA was given a green light to conduct a covert mission in Cuba to overthrow the communist dictatorship and remove Fidel Castro

Under president Eisenhower, the CIA started to develop a plan to overthrow the Castro administration. The formulated plan was to recruit Cuban exiles living in the Miami area and train and equip the exiles to infiltrate Cuba and start a revolution to ignite an uprising across the island and overthrow the Fidel Castro administration. The invasion plan was activated shortly after newly elected President Kennedy’s inauguration, in February 1961. However, he was determined to disguise U.S. support because he felt that the last thing he wanted, he said, was a “direct, overt” intervention by the American military in Cuba due to the fact that the Soviets would likely see this as an act of war and might retaliate. However, he was told by the CIA officers

In an effort to end Castro's government once and for all, President Kennedy gave the approval for the Bay of Pigs invasion, which seemed like a surefire way to defeat Castro’s government. In this invasion, Kennedy covertly hired 1,400 Cuban exiles from the United States to wage an all-out war against Castro. However, this plan utterly failed, with Castro defeating the Cuban exiles and Kennedy being exposed for ordering such an attack. This failed invasion also spurred the Cuban government to allow the Soviet Union to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, playing right into Soviet interests. Premier Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union during this time, quickly seized this opportunity to stealthily send more than 40 nuclear missiles to Cuba, which gave them the capability of accurately hitting vital American targets, such as Washington, D.C., and New York City, while also protecting their fellow communists in

In 1961 Kennedy sent over people banished from Cuba back in hopes to end Castro. The U.s. made many attempts to end Castro. Even though they failed and the invasion didn’t go as planned the attempts to ruin Castro didn’t end for a few decades. President Kennedy even sent over Castro's favorite cigars infused with poison in attempts to kill him. Like all the other attempts it failed. Castro was aware that the U.S. was trying to kill him so he used that to his advantage. Castro setup his enemies in his place so they would die instead of himself. Kennedy wanted Castro dead. Kennedy started to burn farms and blow up the sugar mills. He was even ready to call and nuclear war on

A few months later, in July of 1960, the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, spoke of arming Cuba with rockets that would protect it from the U.S. In response, President Eisenhower announced that the United States would not “tolerate the establishment of a regime dominated by international communism in the western hemisphere.” Richard Bissell, an aide to CIA director Allen Dulles, described a meeting that took place in the White House on January 3, 1961, stating, “President [Eisenhower] seemed to be eager to take forceful action against Castro, and breaking off diplomatic relations appeared to be his best card. He noted that he was prepared to ‘move against Castro’ before Kennedy’s inauguration on the twentieth if a ‘really good excuse’ was provided by Castro. ‘Failing that,’ he said, ‘perhaps we could think of manufacturing something that would be generally

After Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista, expropriated American economic assets and developed links with the Soviet Union, President Eisenhower authorized the CIA in March 1960 to develop a plan to overthrow Castro. The agency trained and armed Cuban exiles to carry out the attack. Shortly after his inauguration, John F. Kennedy learned of the invasion plan, concluded that Fidel Castro was a Soviet client posing a threat to all of Latin America and, after consultations with his advisers, gave his consent in February 1961 for the CIA-planned amphibious assault.

The Cuban revolution was the spark that ignited the flame of communism in Cuba. The developing nation gained independence only as recently as 1898, and was already filled with an atmosphere of distrust and resentment towards the United States. In July of 1953, a revolution began in Cuba between the United States backed President Batista and Fidel Castro. Fidel and his brother Raul Castro lead a series of guerilla warfare battles against the forces of President Batista. “I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba,” stated Fidel Castro. In January of 1959, Fidel Castro became the President of Cuba. With the regime of Fidel Castro, Cuba would fall to communism.

The time of the Cuban Revolution was a great deal of turmoil, not just in Cuba but in almost every corner of the world. It was 1945, shortly after the end of World War Two, and the Cold War was taking off between the United States and the Soviet Union. Cuba, in the middle of its own war, was caught up in the international politics of the Cold War. The interaction between international and domestic politics played a major role in the outcome of the revolution. The result of the revolution left Fidel Castro in charge of Cuba.

Castro intended on helping Cuba’s high poverty, but Castro did not turn Cuba into a democracy like he said he would (“Cuban missile Crisis”2). In 1960 the soviet premier attempted to convince Castro to become communist, soon after this castro became communist, probably influenced by the soviet premier (“Cuban missile Crisis”3). A new american president, that could probably change the war, was coming into office around this time, President Kennedy. The new president would take on the problem of this new cuban leader (International Encyclopedia of the… 1). Before him, Eisenhower trained about 1,500 Cuban Exiles in secret to try to take over Cuba, Kennedy allowed this to go on. On april 17, the exils attempted to invade Cuba(“Cuban missile Crisis”3). Since Castro had found out about the invasion, he was ready and defeated the the incoming force easily(“Cuban missile Crisis”3-4). The failed invasion seemed to help the Cuban opinion of Castro. He was now an obvious threat and so the U.S. decided to start operation Mongoose. Operation Mongoose was a secret operation to get rid of Castro, it was an operation where the U.S. would try to sabotage Cuba, but Operation Mongoose never ended up happening. The U.S.S.R. did not want to lose Cuba so they decided to secretly send weapons into Cuba, including nuclear weapons (“Cuban missile Crisis”4). These arm shipments would lead to one of the

It is evident that the US had been flagrantly deceived. Then Kennedy called for a naval blockade of Cuba. Kennedy used political negotiations with Khrushchev to come to an agreement in the removal of the weapons. Throughout negotiations, there were incidents that occurred which amplified tensions. Such as on the noon of October 27th, a U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba. In those moments, both the US and the Soviet Union assumed that it was Castro who commanded the fire of low-flying U.S. planes on October 27th. Although Castro had certainly commanded Cuban antiaircraft artillery to fire, there is no indication that he had also ordered Soviet artillery to fire. Another occurrence is Castro’s letter to Khrushchev insisting that the Soviet Union should launch a first-strike nuclear attack on the United States.

The Cuban Revolution was a necessary act that attempted to improve the lives of the cuban population through many horrific events. The Cuban Revolution, which began in the early 1950’s, was an overthrow of a corrupt government. Throughout Fidel Castro’s multiple attempts to improve the horrific conditions of the Cuban population, the Revolution became a long and tragic journey beginning with the 26th of July Movement, to The Bay of Pigs invasion, to The Cuban Missile Crisis.