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A great president was elected in 1960. He had just beat Mr. nixon, the republican, by .17% of the votes. 43 years of age, a democrat, Harvard graduate, and a father, had just been elected as the 35th president. The 1950s, bitter between the United States and the Soviet Union, called the Cold War. The Cold War was not actually military conflict fought with armies and weapons, but more along the lines of conflict of ideas, ultimatums , and rivalry. The “Space Race” and the nuclear arms race were…

The Spanish-American war occurred when spanish colonies between the Western Pacific Ocean and Latin America wanted to gain independence from Spain. War began when Cuba revolted from the Spanish government of Spain in February 1995. The United States, (which avoided foreign affairs and followed the Monroe Doctrine), involved themselves militarily once America’s investments in Cuban companies became a risk. President William McKinley did not want to involve the young nation into a war, however…

The 1954 Guatemalan Coup d’etat was a covert operations mission carried out by the CIA, ordered by president Eisenhower. Their goal was to evict President Jacobo Arbenz from Guatemalan power. Because america feared that Arbenz was sympathetic of soviet Communism. And there was no way the mighty Americans of the first world we’re going to let the socialist soviets of the second world take over guatemala and hinder america’s stake and business in Guatemala. As well as the physical and financial…

Question 1 · The Cold War is categorized as the rise of ideologies and the constant changes in power; a prime example is seen post the Cuban Revolution of 1945. Cuba’s Revolution created significant political and “economical struggles due to the dependence of American resources, for instance, sugar” (Robert 657). Prior to the Cuban Revolution, the United States and Cuba coincided with one another mainly because Cuba wanted to introduce the idea of democracy to Latin America; soon…

Cuba The history of the United States is overelaborated with crisis after the Second World War. The hazards of communism and the Soviet Union’s nuclear power endangered a great degree of apprehensiveness within the United States. As the Cold War began, a country in America’s own backyard, sided with the Soviet business leader. As the public divided into two factions, Republic of Cuba chose to side with United Soviet Socialist during this state of war. Thus, the two world power, United…

Fidel Castro was born out of wedlock in Biran, Cuba to Lina Ruz Gonzalez on August 13, 1926. Fidel’s father, Angel migrated from Spain to Cuba and established a prosperous living by growing sugar cane. After the collapse of Angel’s first marriage he married Fidel’s mother who was a former house servant, whom he eventually married and had six other children. Fidel was six years old we he was sent to live with his teacher in Santiago. During this time, he was baptized into the Roman Catholic…

The United States has had an ongoing embargo with Cuba. It is known among Cubans as el bloqueo that is translated to the blockade. This embargo consists of restrictions on Cuban travel, and economic punishment against Cuba. According to people the embargo argues that Cuba has not met the US conditions for lifting the embargo. It just doesn’t transition to democracy and improving human rights. President Obama has tried to ease the embargo many times but have failed. The United Nations General…

José Martí, a national hero in Cuba, writes about his country’s journey to independence. The time period he is living in is not a relaxing one where one is “sleeping in a nightcap,” but rather one of “weapons for a pillow” (1). Cuba is vying for its independence from imperialist Spain while trying to fend off America in the north. He begins his essay by condemning the Cubans who have turned away from their own country and its people, calling them “conceited villagers” (1). The Europeans who…

The U.S. severed ties with Cuba in 1961 in opposition to Castro's communist regime, but two years ago President Obama ordered full restoration of diplomatic ties. On Monday, the movement toward normal relations continued when the first regularly scheduled flight from the U.S. to Havana flew out of Miami. Trump, however, tweeted that "If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate deal." The U.S. severed ties…

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