There were many reasons for the Bay of Pigs invasion. The main reason was to stop communism from reaching our country. After World War 2, the United States was practicing containment. Cuba is located 90 miles off the coast of Florida, and Americans feared a country that close falling to communism. Another reason
After the Guerrillia campaign that lasted three years, in 1959 Fidel Castro overthrew Batista who had many Americans supporting him. Americans were also very worried due to the invention of ICBMs (Intercontinental ballistic missiles). These Missiles had a shorter range in comparison so any country that occupied Cuba would put them in Missile range of the USA. What was the relationship between America and Cuba before 1959? The USA played a big role in Cuba’s economy after 1875.
Cuba had to use a Swedish ruse to safely and successfully ship sugar, an ingredient in bomb-making, to Britain and France. Finally, a reason that was very important to Cuba’s president Menocal was that U.S. support would help him continue to stay president since he declared war on Germany. One consequence of war was that the Cubans threw all Germans and Austrians into internment camps. 25,000 people were conscripted into the war and they underwent training for one year before they were sent out. As a result of the accessibility of the Cuban ports, the Cubans denied Cuban ports to German U-boats.
In the fall of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union were the closest out of anyone ever to a global nuclear war. Hoping to solve a strategic disadvantage brought up by the United States placing Nuclear Missiles in Europe pointed at the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union decided to send missiles of its own to Fidel Castro’s Cuba and point them at the United States. Once operational these nuclear missiles could be pointed at major cities and military targets across most of the continental United States. Before this happened, however, US intelligence discovered Nikita Khrushchev’s plans. The US’s solution was to form a blockade all around the island of Cuba and stop all soviet ships from entering the island (“The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962”).
In this essay it will be argued that indeed the Cuban Missile Crisis was the point of highest tension during the Cold War and also that Kennedy benefited the most from the outcome as opposed to Khrushchev who was the leader of the USSR. Firstly the Cuban Missile Crisis began on the 16th October 1962 when an American U2 spy plane photographed Soviet missiles sites in Cuba. The fact that the USSR had responded to appeals for help from Cuba following the Bay of Pigs invasion was a large problem for the USA and straight away increased the tensions of the Cold War. It was an issue because Cuba was lead by Castro, a communist who had already overthrown the pro- American government in 1961 and so he was motivated to possibly harm the United States of America and working with Khrushchev gave him the means to do so. Furthermore Cuba was only 90 miles off the coast of America, which meant these missiles, particularly the long-ranged weapons could reach major American cities.
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The book gives information of both the embargo and the inner damage it did to both nations. Cuba had been taking steps towards isolation years before we closed trade. Author, Peter Schwab, believes that Castro had been planning this once he entered power. These events have helped limit are economy which obviously a bad thing. I think that the U.S. once again step there foot in Cuba to spread are Americanized culture as we once did.
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Trade Embargo with Cuba El Bloqueo, is the near total embargo the United States has with Cuba. This is a commercial, economic and financial embargo that was partially imposed on Cuba in October of 1960. This was imposed due to Cuba nationalizing properties of our citizens and corporations. On February 7, 1962 it was increased to a near total embargo. In this essay I will be describing the embargo, our reason for enforcing the embargo, whether or not the embargo is effective and if I agree with the embargo.
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