Cuban Missile Crisis
The Americans gained control of Cuba in the late nineteenth century and by 1950 supported a shady regime under Fulgencio Batista, who took control of Cuba by force in 1933. By the late 50's, the Americans controlled the Cuban economy. Fed up with Batista's corrupt regime, Fidel Castro, a lawyer with a liberal national background, organized a coup and seized the Cuban government. Once in power, Castro nationalized the US owned companies in Cuba, destroying relations with the Americans. By 1960, the US stopped buying Cuban sugar and Castro signed a trade agreement with the U.S.S.R. in which the U.S.S.R. agreed to buy all of Cuba's sugar and to provide aid. Already, signs of bitterness between the two superpowers were building up and by 1961 the U.S. broke off all diplomatic relations with Cuba.In April of 1961, President Kennedy offered a military base in Guatemala to Cuban exiles and the C.I.A. to reinvade Cuba and recapture it. The Bay of Pigs, as it was called, was
This was done and Khrushchev accepted. The first letter stated that Khrushchev would pull out his missiles in Cuba if the US promised not to invade Cuba. On the 22 of October, President Kennedy went on national television and announced the naval blockade ("quarantine") against Cuba. The separation with the USA was complete. U-2 spy planes in August, 1962 saw and photographed Russian surface to air missiles in Cuba. Finally, Khrushchev was dismissed as the Soviet leader in 1964, mainly for his poor showing in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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