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Aftermath and Legacy of the Cuban Revolution
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Read through the multiple perspectives on the Cuban Missile Crisis within the worksheet 'DOCUMENT STUDY' and complete Qs 1 - 5.
Cold War 101
Bay of Pigs: April 19, 1961
- USA had grown suspicious about a Cuba-Soviet Union alliance
- CIA equips and trains 1400 Cuban exiles as part of a plan to invade Cuba and topple Castro
- 'Perfect failure' - resulted in the death or imprisonment of all the invading force
- President JFK has to publicly admit US complicity in attempting to overthrow Castro
- Castro's regime greatly benefited - moral and political victory over a superpower, but also financial (received $53 million in aid money for return of prisoners).
The Cold War and Cuban Revolution
Aftermath and Legacy of the Cuban Revolution
The deterioration in US–Cuban relations led Castro to form an alliance with the USSR at a key moment in the Cold War.
Whether or not he exchanged control by one foreign power for another is a matter for debate, but Cuba’s significance in the outside world – and the significance of the outside world to Cuba – was changed forever by the Cuban Revolution.
Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cuban economy relied on Soviet Union assistance
- Operation Anadyr (1962) - Soviet plan to install nuclear missiles in Cuba (a defensive or offensive ploy?)
- 13 day diplomatic stand-off that pushed the world to the brink of thermonuclear war (M.A.D)
- President JFK agreed to withdraw nuclear arms from Turkey and Italy (threats to Soviet Union) in return for Krushchev's withdrawal of the weapons from Cuba
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