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Cuba in the Cold War
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Conflict in Southeast Asia
in southeast asia, another cold war rivarly threatened to heat up. After World War ll, Vietnamese nationalists, led by popluar communist leader Ho Chi Minh, fought for independence from france. The Vietnamese defeated the French in 1954, and the region was divided into communist north vietnam and noncommunist south vietnam. -
Castro's Revolution Succeeds
By 1956, Castro had been released and sent to mexico. There, he resumed his revolutionary effort with a group of about 80 followers. They returned to Cuba , in Decemer 1956, in an invansion that they hoped would lead to a swift victory. the invansion failed, but the surviors hid in the mountains of cuba and launched both a publicity campaign and guerrilla warfare operations. Guerrilla warfare occurs when small bands of people conduct surprise attacks and sabotage -
Making the Decision
When John Kennedy was elected president in 1960, he was presented with a decision. Under the Eisenhower administation, the CIA had developed a plan to support an invansion of cuba carried out by a group of cuban refugees. These people has fled
Cuba when castro came to power. they wanted to overthrow Castro and replace his government with one that would restore private ownership of property and industry. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
Fidel Castro took control of cuba during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Cuba's confiscation of Amerians' property and its growing ties to the soviet union caused U.S.- Cuba relatinos to deteriorate. Eisenhower placed an embargo on U.S. exports to cuba except for medicine and food. Then, near the end of his term of office, Eisenhower cut off all diplomatic relations with Cuba -
The Invansion
On April 17, 1961, the CIA- backed force of 1,400 cuban refugees landed at the swampy Bay Of Pigs on cuba's southern Coast. A cuban force of 20,000 easily overwhelmed the invanders, capturing about 1,100 men adn imprisoning them. Eventually, the U.S. Government secured the released of these prisoners by paying a ransom of $53 million in medicine and food. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
conerns about cuba and its close relatons with the soviet union had led president kennedy to try to overthrow the cuban government. the failure of the bay of pigs invasion had embarrassed the united states adn strengthened castro's power. The U.S. government continued to watch cuba closely. This included using top-secret U-2 spy planes to illegally fly over and photograph the island -
Resolution
The Tense situation continued for a week. Kennedy and Khrushchev exchanged several messages. Each stood his ground, unwilling to back down but unwilling to start a war. Finally, on October 28, a settlement was reached. Krushchev agreed to stop sending missiles to cuba and to return the missiles already in cuba to the soviet union. In addition, he agreed to dismantle the launching sites. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
in August 1964, the north vietnamese torpedoed the U.S. destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. President Johnson would be standing for reelection in three months. he issued a warning that another attack on the U.S. Navy would have serious consequences.
