POLS 375 Lecture Notes - Cuban Missile Crisis, Scotiabank
2 Feb 2013
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The malian intervention is highly popular in france. Commonwealth should be a place without racism. Commonwealth creates something, only to have it voted against. Canada did not seek full independence until 1949. Up until 1949, you could still overturn rulings from the supreme court of canada. The idea of a bipolar world infects the world at this time. Very corrupt dictatorship by fidel castro"s rebel of movement and castro was not initially a communist movement. The united states was the first country to recognize castro"s government as legitimate, followed by canada. Eventually, things go sour, when castro begins to shift left. American ownership of cuba is massive and the mob was involved, heavily. Cuba was heavily owned by american investors and castro wanted to appropriate them so castro turned to the soviet union for help. The possibility of nuclear missiles in cuba was considered unacceptable by the united. Americans are pushing cuba with an economic embargo: they came to canada.
