Why did antagonism occur between the USA and Cuba between 1959 and 1961?
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:44:15
Category: / Law & Government / Military
Length: 4 pages (1024 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Military
Length: 4 pages (1024 words)
In Cuba, 1962, was where one of the major conflicts between the US and USSR took place--the Cuban Missile Crisis. However before 1959, the US and Cuba were really close, nearly all its industry, electricity production, railways and the entire telephone system were owned by the Americans. What happened that had changed their relation so rapidly, and why did it take place?
Firstly, the Cuban Revolution in 1959, in which a nationalist Fidel Castro became the Cuban leader, …
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