HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Corporatism, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban Revolution
11 Feb 2014
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The cuban missile crisis: the penultimate climax of the cold war. After both the us and the ussr have reached a point, they both realize that a bomb would be too much: cold war mentalities, preceding events. Gave the west an ultimatum but the west ignored it, and he began to threaten nuclear war. Background to the cmc: pre-revolutionary cuba 1950s, batista: increasingly unpopular in cuba. Despite the wealth, cuba was poor: a dictator, 1950s: opposition grew. Biggest groups of the opposition were students, etc: castro"s band, given a 2nd chance unlike most revolutionaries, he was captured and almost blown up, ended up in mexico. Plans to go back to cuba, but captured by cuban troops. 1957: democratic opposition to batista launched a major uprising: very disorganized and not enough support from the army. The coup failed and the iron fist landed on the democratic opposition.
