The Cuban Missile Crisis (causes and long-term issues)
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Cuba- causes and long-term issues
Fulgencio Batista, the USA's man in Havana (1940-59)- Brutal and corrupt.
1933- 'Good Neighbour policy'
The Americans thought of the Caribbean as in their backyard.
1936- Americans pulled out of Nicargua (the Somosa family were put in power- 1936-79).
Batista- By 1959, he is openly corrupt and an embarrassment to the USA. In the late 1940s, he wanted to propel the economies take off. Batista made Cuba a tourist destination.
Cuba- causes and long-term issues
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro- leaders of the 26th of July movement. They were not communist, but left-wing nationalists by the late 1950s. They became communist by 1961.
Castro was a lawyer he was a prisoner under Batista, Guevara was Argentinian
Context... long-term issues- The Monroe Doctrine
Regional US policy introduced in 1823 in response to the receding influence of the imperial powers (Spain)- the US wanted to fill that power vacuum.
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