The Embargo Act of 1962 Cuba by President Kennedy. Now, in 2016, President Obama wants to lift the Embargo Act. Can Obama change the minds of American leaders and the Cuban government? Since the controversy in 1959 when Castro used the help of the United States to take gain power,and control over Cuba the United States leaders are not very friendly when it comes to the subject of Cuba . Obama wants to open up trade with Cuba so it can benefit America to gain more allies,but can American leaders be opened to that idea after the history between Cuba and America?
January 1958 ;When the people of Cuba were ruled by Batista, they were suffering under his policies .Castro promised Cuba change after overthrowing Batista . During this time, Castro started selling oil to the Soviet Union instead of America, and that’s when America cut off all trade with Cuba. Because of Castro raising taxes,not trading with America .So the United States broke all ties with Cuba and agreed not to intervene in Cuban affairs .During this time, Castro opened new schools, and Cubans enjoyed universal health care. But at the same time, Castro removed the labor union to strike and independent newspapers were shut down(Biography Editor).
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The Cuban people wanted to fight back and the United Embassy took them in in Florida and helped them. By this time America plotted the attack, Castro already knew about it and had troops waiting by the Bay. Castro imprisoned so many American / Cuban people more than 1,100 were imprisoned
The book That Infernal Little Cuban Republic, focuses on the relationship between both Cuba and the United States. A lot of the contention between Cuba and the United States stems from the American view that every country is in need of our assistance. The author details how American officials asserted themselves into Cuba and with their presence in most cases did more harm than good in reference to the Cuban population. The book highlights that the U.S. government supported many policies in Cuba that were undemocratic leading to their citizens suffering politically, economically, and socially. After Castro took power the relationship between the two governments suffered immediately.
“To hunt them down, the government responded with scorched-earth campaigns, pacifications programs and paramilitary death squads, often with assistance from the US Special Forces advisers” (137-138). This caused in 1976 more than twenty thousand deaths, also the spread of this to the countryside. The outcome is what the government wanted them to become powerful to produce this sham election. The US went to help the government for politics, but now the relations between the two are very different. Reading some articles I saw that the “US urges citizens not to travel to Cuba, cuts embassy safe and halts visa processing” (Chicagotribune).
The Bay of Pigs was an invasion that the CIA had financed which involved training a group of Cuban refugees to land in Cuba. The primary goal of the invasion was to get rid of the communist government led by Fidel Castro. The Outcome of the invasion was unexpected, and the invasion failed miserably. The plan failed due to last minute cancellations of airstrikes, and the lack of knowledge that Castro had ordered 20,000 troops in advance to go to the attack site; this resulted in having the Cuban Air Force dominating the sky, which did not allow the U.S army to fight back. As the invasion went on, the chance of the U.S winning decreased within every hour.
Their fear of the United States united the Cuban people and generating their support for communism. Succeeding the Cold War, The Vietnam War was malicious with most of the
January of 1959, Cuba welcomed the first of the Cuban Revolution, and had become a communist country under the rule of Fidel Castro as mentioned in “Document D”. The US, against communism, became much involved in Cuba during 1962, when
The Cuban Revolution was of great significance to the U.S. because it put Fidel Castro in power as a communist dictator in Cuba and contributed to the Soviet Union’s power during the Cold War. Castro went against everything that represented democracy and basic human rights, meaning that the U.S. was challenged by his role and meant to overthrow him and keep him out of
Jack was involved Bay of Pigs Invasion which, occurred on April 17, 1961 where 1,500 troops of Cuba, deported at the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the southern cost of Cuba. Their mission was to fall down the government of Fidel Castro by inciting encourage to rebel among the Cuban people. This mission complete failure. The unsuccessful invasion stands out as one of the major mistakes of Kennedy 's presidency.
Another reason they needed help was because the US refused to carry on buying sugar from Cuba which placed them in a poor economic state. After Fidel Castro came to power, he nationalized American companies within
Cuba became a communist country under the dictatorship of Fidel Castro, the united states did attempt to stop it but they failed. (Doc D) The United States late on discovered that there was a range of nuclear missiles sites in Cuba, the United States responded to this by announcing a quarantine. (Doc D) A quarantine is a place of isolation in which people or even animals are placed after coming from somewhere else, this was usually practiced to stop pesticides and other infections.
In January of 1959, Fidel Castro came to power. The United States’ attempted to overthrow Castro with the Bay of Pigs Invasion, a CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro by landing 1200 disgruntled Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs. The attempt fails miserably and is a huge embarrassment for Kennedy, who then vows to bring down Castro. After the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, Castro looked to the Soviet Union for protection. According to document D in 1962 “The soviets began shipping 40,000 troops, 60 missiles and 158 nuclear warheads to communist Cuba.”
Cuba would lose American influence thus leading to end of slavery. The U.S could not let that happen due to the fact it was the slaves who made Cuba the largest sugar producer. Without slaves and the high production and access to sugar, Cuba is almost useless economically. The U.S saw this island as a source of sugar and a place for trading. They placed large amounts of investments into Cuba and the U.S was not going to lose it all; nearly over $50 million was invested.3 The U.S spent money and time in Cuba to make more money, not to lose it.
The US decided to send Ships to protect the sugar resources. The USS Maine had come to Cuba to protect the US citizens that were
We ended up cutting off all forms of trade communication, transportation, etc. The United States basically banned Cuba and any talk of it. Cuba was not a happy subject at any type of party.
Late president Nikita Khrushchev (from USSR), agreed to assist Castro and took immediate action. He installed missiles in Cuba, which the US thought was a threat to the security of their nation. In summary, I think that this was a defensive move by the Cubans. I most definitely agree with
Nothing changed things got worse and worse and worse. Cuba remained the same as it did earlier with Batista; a poor country in debt whose livelihood depends on sugar production. At first the United