The Cuban Misile crisis

Cuba is a large island off the USA only 144km from the coast, for many years usa had been very happy with the political and economic situation

• us businesses had dominated cuba and they owned the major indutries
• the us tourists enjoyed holidays there
• they aslo dominated it military - Guantamino Bay

The usa supported the leader batista, howevs he was corrupt and unpopular dictator, but they supported him because he was anticommunist

in 1959 Fidel Castro overthrew the government

• he took over many us owned industries
• took…