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Cuban Missile Crisis. By: Coleman, Cory, Tyler & Connor . Relationship Between Cuban Leader Batista And American Government.
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Cuban Missile Crisis By: Coleman, Cory, Tyler & Connor
Relationship Between Cuban Leader Batista And American Government Fulgencio Batista wanted the best for his country. He wanted peace, he wanted dominance and most of all he wanted to become allies within the U.S to make sure no country could ever overcome the two. Once meeting with American President John F. Kennedy, Batista left appalled at the fact that the U.S did not want to join the Cuban’s but just own them an pretty well run there country. Batista wanted a say. And from that he was not allowed. After for going many meetings with JFK, Batista came up with the fact that he wanted too overcome these obstacles and just overthrow the us dominance within Cuba.. Then causing the Cuban Revolution.
Cuban revolution An armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro’s 26th of July movement and its allies vs Fulgencio Batista and his Cuban government. The revolution began on July 1953, and finally Batista’s government was overthrown and replaced by Castro’s socialist state.
Reason’s why Americans didn’t like Castro's new government and why they imposed a sugar embargo on Cuba The 1963 U.S. embargo was reinforced in October 1992 by the Cuban Democracy Act (the "Torricelli Law") and in 1996 by the Cuban Liberty and Democracy Solidarity Act (known as the Helms Burton Act) which penalizes foreign companies that do business in Cuba by preventing them from doing business in the US. Justification provided for these restrictions was that these companies were trafficking in stolen U.S. properties, and should, thus, be excluded from the United States. When the Americans found out that Fidel Castro was making Cuba communist they were appalled. The cut off free trade and band the Cubans from trading with other countries across Europe and south America.
Bay Of Pigs The Bay of Pigs Invasion, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency , Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front and intended to overthrow the revolutionary left-wing government of Fidel Castro. Launched from Guatemala, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban armed forces, under the direct command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro.
Soviets placement of missiles in Cuba and how Americans found them Known as operation Anadyr, the USSR placed Nuclear warhead behind enemy lines in Cuba. Using Cuban government to there advantage, the USSR and Fidel Castro made a “deal” to protect themselves from the U.S (Cuba and U.S in dispute over trade and military activity at this point) Once the missiles were placed inside Cuba, the USSR could potentially destroy U.S by missile strike. Once President JFK was aware of the operation, an immediate blockade was set up to stop all farther communication and operation between the USSR and Cuba. If it wasn’t for the CIA’s undercover operations in the kremlin the Americans never would of found out about the missiles in Cuba.
America’s response to missiles The US had no plan in place because US intelligence had been convinced that the Soviets would never install nuclear missiles in Cuba. The EXCOMM (Executive committee of national security) quickly discussed several possible courses of action, including 1.Do nothing: American vulnerability to Soviet missiles was not new. Newly placed missiles in Cuba made little strategic difference in the military balance of power. 2.Diplomacy: Use diplomatic pressure to get the Soviet Union to remove the missiles. 3.Warning: Send a message to Castro to warn him of the grave danger he and Cuba were in. 4.Blockade: Use the US Navy to block any missiles from arriving in Cuba. 5.Air strike: Use the US Air Force to attack all known missile sites. 6.Invasion: Full force invasion of Cuba and overthrow of Castro. Only a Blockade of Navy Vessels and U-2 planes were used.
Easing The Tension • The Washington-Moscow hotline was set up so that the leaders of both country's could talk on a secure line. • The partial test ban treaty was designed to prohibit all test detonations of nuclear weapons except underground.
Kennedy and Khrushchev's Solutions • Khrushchev agreed to take the missiles out of Cuba and return them to the USSR, if Kennedy agreed to a public declaration to never invade Cuba. • Secretly, the US also agreed that it would dismantle all missiles in Turkey pointed at Moscow.
Kennedy’s Assassination • Kennedy was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. • He was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. Although it was never proven that Oswald was the only shooter.
Lee Harvey Oswald • Lee Harvey Oswald was convicted with the murders of president Kennedy and officer Tippit. Oswald's case however never came to trial because 2 days later while being escorted to a cop car, got shot on live television.
