The Bay of Pigs Invasion happened in 1961. The invasion was a failed attempt to be rid of Fidel Castro, the Cuban dictator. The current reining president at the time it all started was President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Part way through though, President John F. Kennedy came to power. Some blame Ke...

 1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government  On Apr. 17, 1961, an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the appr...

The U.S. had feared the worst with the Cuban Missile Crisis: a nuclear attack. The Soviets were not necessarily planning on using the missiles to go ahead and begin a war with the U.S. It was merely set up as a tactic to keep the U.S. out of Cuba and to leave Castro and his government alone mainly i...

Rating John F. Kennedy In 1960 John F. Kennedy was elected president, his good looks, his family's history, and his charismatic personality won him the election. He was the youngest ever elected to office, and his lack of experience showed when dealing with foreign affairs. Throughout his ca...

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on January 13, 1926. He was an illegitimate child of Angel Castro y Argiz, an immigrant worker from spain and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Fidel grew up in the mountainous region of Oriente province. As a boy, Fidel worked in the family's sugar cane fields and, at 6 yea...

Excitement was high for Cuba, when Fidel Castro overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in January 1959. With a heady mixture of nationalism and left – wing ideologies US became very cautious for its southern comrades Central and Southern America and perhaps herself. When Castro took ...

Excitement was high for Cuba, when Fidel Castro overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in January 1959. With a heady mixture of nationalism and left – wing ideologies US became very cautious for its southern comrades Central and Southern America and perhaps herself. When Castro took ...

Soviet Union was very much behind the United States in the arms race or the Cold War. Soviet missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U.S. missiles were capable of striking the entire Soviet Union. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev decided upon the idea of placing interm...

Since 1962 there has been an embargo on Cuba. Within the last 40 years we have seen the Cuban way of life turn into absolute poverty and a struggle. Cuba's economy has done nothing but fall into an absolute depression, which shows no change in the way it's heading. Other countries also...

Cuban Missile Crisis 1:) President Kennedy's reaction to the photographs would be much like anyone else in the USA: shocking. He wakes up from a nights sleep to find that Cuba had made bases containing missiles and atomic weapons right under his nose. The missile once launched could easil...

History is an important part of our lives and the world we live in. By studying history people can be educated about the remarkable events that have taken place on earth. There have been a number of incidents that have occurred in the past that has changed our way of living forever. One of the ...

Salsa Music Since Columbus "discovered" America and the slave trade began, music has always been a very important part of the Cuban culture. Cuba's strategic position in the Caribbean, made it a real crossroad for all the trades between Central and North America and for most of ...

Although the Cuban economy may be thought of as a complete failure, the command system structure can still be an effective way of creating a successful economy. From the 1960s revolution to the 1990's collapse of Russia, the Soviet Union managed to maintain the Cuban economy by trading them sugar ...