The Cuban Missile Crisis: Origins
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- Cuban Missile Crisis: origins
- The Cuban Revolution, the USA and the Soviet Union
- Cuba was very closely linked to USA
- Lots of US owned businesses in Cuba
- Cuba had a socialist revolution in 1959 and the USA refused to deal with the new government
- Cuba started to build economic links with the Soviet Union (e.g. trading Soviet oil for Cuban sugar
- Relationship between USA and Soviet Union deteriorated
- Castro
- USA refused to recognise Castro's government, did not want a socialist country in their sphere of influence, especially one with close links to USSR
- CIA tried to assassinate the leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro, with no success
- CIA convinced Kennedy that a US-backed invasion of Cuba, designed to overthrow Castro, could solve the problem
- The Bay of Pigs incident (17 Apr 1961)
- What the CIA told Kennedy
- Invasion will look like a Cuban revolt - Cuban exiles have been trained and US planes disguised as Cuban
- Castro's control over Cuba is very weak
- Most Cubans hate Castro
- What actually happened
- Planes were recognised as US planes, and photographed and published
- Castro knew of the invasion and 1400 US-backed stoop met 20000 of Castro's troops, US-backed troops surrendered
- Most Cubans did not want their old leader, Batista, because he had been corrupt
- What the CIA told Kennedy
- Impact of Bay of Pigs Incident
- Ended all chances of friendly US-Cuba relationship
- Castro announced he was a communist
- Cuba and Soviet Union started building closer ties, including military defense for Cuba
- The Cuban Revolution, the USA and the Soviet Union
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