I think that the U.S. once again step there foot in Cuba to spread are Americanized culture as we once did. The Cuban Embargo This book went more in depth with are government and whether it truly agrees with JFK's decision or is it that we are afraid to change whats been in play for years. The background thought is what are the circumstances of opening trade with a communist country like Cuba. This book shows the changing of are policy with Cuba for the past four decades since the Cuban Revolution. Although the embargo remains in play it hasn't stopped us from still gaining much Cuban influence.
In fact, many Cuban-Americans that I personally know claim that racism is truly not an issue in present-day Cuba. In my opinion, this is not so. Afro-Cuban involvement in government has always been motivated by goals of citizenship and racial equality. Therefore, black inclusion in government since independence was seen as a necessity rather than a formality. I find it disturbing that I can pin point two instances in Cuban history where Afro-Cubans have been manipulated and tricked into supporting white leaders that only had their own self-interests at heart.
In 1958 and 1959 the communist revolutionary Fidel Castro overthrew Dictator Fulggencio Batista and establishes a socialist state aligned with the Soviet Union, abolishing capitalism and nationalizing foreign owned enterprises. Relationship with the United States of America deteriorated, with the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Cuba lost important financial backing, and its economy suffered greatly. The economy gradually began improving later in the 1990s with the encouragement of tourism and the legalization of small businesses and private employment. It is therefore clear as to why by the middle of the 20th century a socialist state had been established in Cuba, as Cuba was governed by a single-party rule or a dominant party rule of a communist party, and also she professed allegiance to a communist ideology as its guiding principle with allegiance with socialist state the Soviet Union. The revolutionary struggle in Cuba to overthrow the dominant elected capitalist government by its Commander in Chief Fulggencio Batista began in July 1953.
Introduction: In the end of the 19th century Spain, one of one the most powerful nations in the world had lost most of its colonies. Spain retained the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the island of Guam in the Pacific. The U.S. had held a long interest in Cuba they tried buying it from Spain but Spain didn't want it to sell it. Several events provoked for the U.S. to intervent in Cuba. Newspapers during that period exaggerated to boost their sales as well as to provoke American intervention with Cuba.
It is my belief the reason behind the US expanded the foreign policy to protect the interest of the American people and to restore some type of human treatment to Cuban people after the Spaniards treated them so inhuman in concentration camps. It is also my belief that the U.S. had their own agenda for monetary purposes to prosper from trade embargo. “It wasn’t so long ago when most Americans firmly rejected global adventurism,” stated Ries and Weber. It is to be believed that that Americans was following a traditional foreign policy of non-intervention as to not seem as though they were trying to take over foreign countries. This leads me to wonder why the U.S. decided to intervene in the Spanish War.
Yes because they are notable to defend themselves. 2. How did President McKinley justify going to war against Spain over events in Cuba? They talk to try to end the hostility between them. 3.
Pol Pot was the communist head of the Khmer Rouge that was founded in 1963. His goal in his regime was to create an agrarian utopian society. After Japan’s imperialistic forces pulled out of Cambodia, the Cambodian wanted nothing more to do with imperialism, and this led to Pol Pot leverage later in his campaign. After a rigged federal election of the elites, Pol Pot started his involvement in the Khmer Rouge Party. Rouge in French means red symbolizing, A communist party.
such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, China, and North Korea were communist’s states with the influence of the USSR having an impact; it could be argued that the crisis didn’t need to prove that containment had failed. The presidents after Truman attempted to uphold containment but did not succeed as well as they could have. Containment had failed as the crisis did not have enough commitment from Kennedy, therefore the policy and Truman’s doctrine had failed. The crisis ended with Cuba still being communist, the only real success for America was that the missiles had been removed, America did not need to remove their Jupiter missiles from Turkey and Castro was wary of Khrushchev; the actual fact that Cuba was still as communist state was not focused upon enough. Containment may have of failed and been made evident with the Cuban missile crisis however it led to a growing awareness of the need to create some control over the nuclear arms race by placing restrictions on nuclear tests.
US Imperialism in Latin America Latin America's residence close to the United States made the improvement of relations between the two countries imperative during the beginning of the 20th century. William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State for Woodrow Wilson, was seen as fairly important to the Imperialism. Although Bryan claimed that he was against imperialistic actions, he was still viewed by the economy as a successor of Imperialism. In 1898, the United States was on its way to war and desire for empire. The edge for war was initiated by the Cuban rebels who were revolting against Spanish control over Latin America.
Being under Spaniards control, the Cubans had limited freedom and decided to take actions into their own hands. “The Cubans struggle for independence from Spain. Ten years guerilla war had followed a Cuban revolt in 1868” (658). This battle between the Cubans and Spaniards was called “Guerra de los Diez Años” which means Ten Year Wars. The United States took interest in this conflict and decided to provide the Cubans with materials to help them.