Cuba defeated the US in 3 days, they knew that the US was going to invade them and they got ready for it. The American troops were either killed or imprisoned by Castro's forces. It was the first mistake that Kennedy made. The US feared the danger of communism. Cuba was only ninety miles away from the US and they feared that communism would spread.
Of these captured rebels most of the leaders were put on show trials in Havana and executed and the rest were returned for $53 million in food and drugs from the United States (1). On December 29, 1962 a ceremony was held at the Orange Bowl for the returned exiles in which Kennedy promised that the exiles flag would someday fly over Havana and so far 48 years later it hasn’t happened (1). This disaster instead of destroying Kennedy led to his greatest triumph for which he is remembered: the Cuban Missile Crisis. After the failed invasion, the Soviet Union decided to protect Castro it would park intermediate range nuclear missile in Castro backyard within range of any US city. After the US discovered the presence of the missiles the US issued a naval quarantine of Cuba.
A few weeks after the ousting of Batista, Castro is appointed premier. In the eyes of the U.S. this was a welcome change from the Batista regime. Soon after gaining the role of premier, Castro made a sharp turn toward the Soviet Union and announced his transformation to Marxism and Leninism. This startling change in policy caused alarm in the American camp because Cuba was just over 90 miles off the coast of Florida and a Communist Country that close to the U.S. could not be tolerated. The Cold War was in full swing and the domino theory was a house hold word at this time.
While David was two years old, his father immigrated the family to Spanish Florida, and they were one of the first family to settle. His father of wealthy stature purchased over 50,000 acres in Jacksonville, Florida and became a well-known landowner (C. W. Yulee). His intentions were to build a “New Jerusalem” for Jewish settlers. He named the city of Yulee in Levy County after the family name. By the age of nine, his father sent him to attend a private school in Norfolk, Virginia, which was managed by an English clergyman and other wealthy Virginian scholars.
It is to be noted that Cuba got its independence in the year 1898 soon after which America started to shows its influence in the social, political and economical aspects of the region. US almost started to occupy all of the major resource of the country and brought the entire control of the country under its wing. In due course of time, the Cubans rose against the imperial approach of US. Cuba is a communist region which follows the principles of communism to a greatest extent possible. It is a well known fact that US is completely against the communist approach which lead to a great lot of clashes among the two regions.
U.S. trained Cuban insurgents were to invade Cuba and instigate an uprising among the Cuban people in hopes of removing Castro from power. On April 17, 1961, Kennedy ordered the previously planned invasion of Cuba to proceed. With support from the CIA, in what is known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1,500 U.S. trained Cuban exiles, called “Brigade 2506,” returned to the island in the hope of deposing Castro. However, Kennedy ordered the invasion to take place without U.S. Air support. By April 19, 1961, the Cuban government had captured or killed the invading exiles, and Kennedy was forced to negotiate for the release of the 1,189 survivors.
The late Fidel Castro was a leader that ruled Cuba for nearly five decades. During this long period of time, he benefited the country greatly but unfortunately brought it unrest at the same time he was hugely popular with his people after he swept off the former dictator Fulgencio Batista from his seat in power in 1959, however, he ended up bringing the country’s people to their knees through dictatorship. This is why in this research task, my aim is to evaluate to what extent did Castro benefit or stagger his country and conclude to whether he did more good than harm for the country. The methodology of which I am to use is by reading newspaper articles to make a proper, professional, less biased evaluation, blogs, history channels websites
Ralph Sasson Soc. 429 Dr. Feinberg 4-21-2007 THE HISPANIZATION OF MIAMI Miami is the most Hispanic large city in the fifty states. In the course of thirty years, Spanish speakers, overwhelmingly Cuban, have established their dominance in virtually every aspect of the city’s life and fundamentally changed its ethnic composition, its culture, its politics, and its language. The Hispanization of Miami is without precedent in the history of major American cities. This process began in the early 1960s with the arrival of middle- and upper-class Cubans who did not want to live under the Castro regime.
I am very proud to say that I am now named by time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people on the world. I am known to most of my followers, friends, and family as a Revolutionary, simply for the revolution that took place in Cuba known as the Cuban Revolution. To this day, that revolution is considered to be the most victorious and successful one. I received much hate from the U.S, I could only imagine the anger they
THE CAUSES AND EFFECT OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION The Haitian Revolution represents the most thorough case study of revolutionary change anywhere in the history of the modern world. In ten years of sustained internal and international warfare, a colony populated predominantly by plantation slaves overthrew both its colonial status and its economic system and established a new political state of entirely free individuals—with some ex-slaves constituting the new political authority. As only the second state to declare its independence in the Americas, Haiti had no viable administrative models to follow. The British North Americans who declared their independence in 1776 left slavery intact, and theirs was more a political revolution than a social and economic one. The success of Haiti against all odds made social revolutions a sensitive issue among the leaders of political revolt elsewhere in the Americas during the final years of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century.