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The Cuban Revolution of 1959

The Cuban Revolution of 1959. Nicole Garcia. Timeline. Attack on Moncada Barracks History Will Absolve Me. Failed Moncada Barracks attack. Majority of rebels caught or killed Afterwards, gave History Will Absolve Me speech at trial. History Will Absolve Me. Pardoned two years later.

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The Cuban Revolution of 1959

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  1. The Cuban Revolution of 1959 Nicole Garcia

  2. Timeline • Attack on Moncada Barracks • History Will Absolve Me

  3. Failed Moncada Barracks attack • Majority of rebels caught or killed • Afterwards, gave History Will Absolve Me speech at trial

  4. History Will Absolve Me • Pardoned two years later

  5. Mexican sejourn • Trained guerillas

  6. Granma • Used to travel to Cuba on Dec. 2, 1956 • Beginning of Rev. • Bad trip • Unsafe, crowded, late • Troops forced into mountains due to bad timing

  7. Other rebels • Frank Pais • Left in charge by Castro • Anti-Batista students led armed assault on Presidential Palace • Ernesto “Che” Guevara • Raul Castro • Camilo Cienfuegos

  8. Bautista’s response to the threat • Attacking pro-Castro towns • Operacion Verano • May 24, 1958 • 17 battalions, tanks, planes, and ships • Plan: enter Sierra Maestra and force a showdown w/Castro’s rebels **Driven back by rebels, who were greatly outnumbered**

  9. Guerilla Warfare • Major component of revolutionaries’ success • Guevara text

  10. Batista Flees • Fled to Spain with family with $300 million fortune from shady affairs

  11. Rebel Occupation • Santa Clara  Santiago  Havana

  12. Speeches • 40th anniversary speech – 1 January 1999 • Retelling of events of Rev. • Our people aren't any better than other peoples. Their historic greatness is derived from the singular fact of having been put to the test and having been able to withstand it. It's not a great people in and of itself, but rather a people which has made itself great, and its capacity to do so is born out of the greatness of the ideas and the righteousness of the causes it defends.

  13. Assassination attempts • http://www.granma.cu/documento/ingles/081-i.html • In view of this possibility and the basic measures of discretion I am obliged to observe for obvious reasons, I would refrain from publicly announcing my decision until the last minute. Likewise, I would postpone the visa application. I know all too well that before an hour has passed in the State Department the news has leaked out. It then follows that the restless organizers of assassination attempts financed by the Cuban-American National Foundation every time I travel abroad –-a linkage that the U.S. authorities are not unaware of-- immediately learn all of the details.

  14. Delayed political recognition • http://www.granma.cu/documento/ingles/081-i.html • The ANSA news agency reported in a cable dated in Washington that an official U.S. source observed that "the meeting in Seattle is a meeting of ministers, not of heads of state, and Castro’s presence would be ‘inappropriate.’“ • Twenty-four hours later, on November 23, the news came that Republican Congressman from Florida Lincoln Díaz-Balart had asked U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno to take provisions to order the arrest of the Cuban president on charges of murder, in the event that he attended the meeting in Seattle.

  15. Castro as presumptuous • http://www.granma.cu/documento/ingles/081-i.html • It would soon be evident that the U.S. government was opposed to my presence at the meeting in Seattle. I was certain that the State Department would not grant me a visa. Therefore, I did not even bother to apply. I did not wish to be subjected to this humiliation. We were soon to confirm this supposition. • ~wisdom • But it would be impossible for me to travel to the United States if official government spokesmen were declaring the visit ‘inappropriate’ or, even worse, if they were consciously involved in a major provocation in Seattle

  16. Militant speech (general) • http://www.granma.cu/documento/ingles/081-i.html • Our highly respected friend, Jim McDermott, you were undoubtedly the most enthusiastic and tenacious defender of the idea of inviting me to take part in the discussions in Seattle. Later, the idea won the support of those who, like you, defend the courageous and sincere exchange of opinions, above and beyond the fanaticism, dogmatism and prejudices of the ignorant, who have no serious ideas to defend, nor arguments to defend them.

  17. 1999 World Trade Organization meeting • Nov. 30 – Dec. 3 • 11/29/99: Letter from Castro to Jim McDermott, Washington State congressman

  18. Sources • http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/webpages/revsfall99/cuba/

  19. Sides of the Cold War Eastern Bloc Western Bloc Austria Belgium Canada Denmark France Greece Iceland Italy Luxemburg Netherlands • Czechoslovakia • East Germany • Finland • Poland • Hungary • USSR • Romania • Norway • Sweden • Spain • Turkey • United Kingdom • U.S.A. • West Germany

  20. January 19th - History • 1917 - Arthur Zimmerman sends telegram to Mexico proposing alliance with Germany ((WWII)) • 1920 – U.S. Senate votes against joining the League of Nations • 1937 – Howard Hughes flies in record time from Los Angeles to New York in just under 7.5 hours • 1966 – Indira Gandhi elected Prime Minister of India • 1969 – Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days prior in protest of Russky invasion of Czech. • 1977 – President Ford pardons Tokyo Rose • 1977 – Snow fell for the only time in Miami’s history

  21. January 19th – Other Births • 1736 – James Watt • 1807 – Robert E. Lee • 1809 – Edgar A. Poe • 1813 – Sir Henry Bessemer • 1946 – Dolly Parton • 1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr. • 1955 – Paul Rodriguez ((Javier in Born in East L.A.)) • 1971 – Shawn Wayans

  22. August 2nd - History • 1776 – Delegates of Continental Congress began signing the Declaration of Independence • 1790 – First US Census • 1932 – Positron (antiparticle of electron) discovered • 1934 – Hitler became Fuhrer of Germany • 1937 – Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 • 1939 – Einstein and Leo Szilard write letter to FDR • 1945 – Potsdam Conference concluded • 1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident • 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait

  23. August 2nd – Other Births • 1932 - Peter O’toole • 1934 – Valery Bykovsky • 1939 – Wes Craven • 1942 – Isabel Allende • 1992 – Hallie Kate Eisenberg

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