FIDEL CASTRO AND CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS

Born August 13, 1926. His dad was a wealthy Spanish sugarcane farmer and his mom was a domestic servant to his father family. He attended a few Jesuit schools, Colegio de Belén. Also graduated from the university of Havana.
He is not dead yet.l

He had 5 siblings. 2 brothers; Raul and Ramon and 3 sisters; Angelita, Emma, and Augustina. He is married to Dalia soto del Valle. He has 5 kids; Antonio, Alex, Alexis, angel, and Alejandro.

He was a Cuban revolutionary. He teamed with Ernesto "Che" Guevara. He led multiple attacks on the Batista ( Cuban gov. At the time ). He eventually over threw the Batista and marched into Havana and crowned himself prime minister. He ruled Cuba from 1959-2006.

He changed the world by making Cuba a stronger country and made their alliance with Russia. He started the first communist gov. in the Western Hemisphere. He overthrew the unfair gov. in Cuba. He also started the mass tension between the U.S. And he started the Cuban missile crisis along with Russia.

He was involved in the crisis by threatening to shoot nuclear bombs at the U.S. He teamed up with Russia's prime minister in the act against the U.S. These events were all part of the Cold War

Important quote
"A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past".
This quote means that a revolution is a fight/struggle to change something for either good or bad.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT FIDEL CASTRO

• Has been arrested
• Sentenced to 15 years in prison
• Played baseball at Havana

The cause of the Cuban missile crisis was the mass tension between the U.S., Cuba, and Russia. Fidel Castro and the Russian prime minister allied together to threaten the U.S.

Lots of events happened during this time. The CIA led many attacks in Cuba to stop the chance of nuclear war. The CIA led the bay of pigs invasion to attempt to do the same thing. The Cuban missile crisis had a very negative impact in the world. There is still tension between the U.S. and Cuba.

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THIS CARTOON SHOWS:

• That the U.S. and russian leaders were fighting
• They exagerated that they were arm wrestling
• The cold war/cuban missile crisis.
• That it was a struggle between the U.S. and Russia
• That the crisis was a joke game 6. I found it persausive that it was a struggle

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