Causes and effects of Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 1

Cubans were living under the corrupt Batista government. Although the United States knew he was corrupt, they continued to support the government, because there were numerous American business interests there. Fidel Castro, then a young lawyer, tried to fight the corruption and inequality through the legal system, but failed. As a result, Castro along with revolutionary Che Guevara led the people in revolt. Once independence had been won, Castro attempted to secure support from the United States, but was unsuccessful. As a result, he turned to the Soviet Union, who agreed to support the fledgling nation. The effects of the revolution caused widespread unemployment, and plunged Cuba, which had once been the most successful Latin American country, into poverty and zero growth. Professionals and intellectuals were forced into re-education camps, or deported. It caused the United States and Cuba, to abolish friendly relations.

Answer 2

· Within a year after Castro killed off batista's army, Castro turned cuba into a thoroughly militarized state.

A superior landmark during this period was the Agrarian Reform Act, passed on May 17. This eliminated large estates through the nationalization of all properties over 420 hectares and granted the ownership over the land to thousands of peasants who had been sharecroppers or leaseholders.

A few months after, this measure was followed by the decision to nationalize all the companies of the Cuban bourgeoisie that had finally sided with the US and with the sectors of the oligarchy and had also helped systematically to all actions aimed at economic sabotage and decapitalization.

In other words the US enforced a boycott against Cuba, however, many Cubans escaped Castro's tyranny and immigrated to the US.

· Castro's policies brought all Cubans health care, education, and a job. Before, the small sums of money that U.S. companies paid to the Cuban Government usually wound up in the pockets of corrupt officials.

While the new money helped those in big cities, it was of little use to those in rural areas. Those in the country would not receive any money from tourists and did not have the potential to develop their communities with the foreign capital.

The new source of income for Cuba was also problematic. Even as Cuba's tourist industry grew, there were increasing signs of prostitution, materialism, self-interest, crime, and other social problems.

Political change also occurred. Some said that Cuba would become more democratic and more free. However, corruption in Cuba's socialist government was minimal, and was zero when compared with the corruption of U.S. supported governments in Cuba.

Answer 3

The cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis was tension between the Soviets and the US. One of the best effects of the crisis was a more open communication between the US and soviets, which would eventually end the cold war.

Answer 4

The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt that led to the overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista of Cuba on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro.

Cuba's revolution has its origins in the struggle against Spanish colonialism, which intensified in the second half of the 19th century. An uprising in 1895 sealed the fate of Spanish colonialism, but victory was snatched from the people by a US expeditionary force in 1898. On 26 July 1953, 160 young militants attacked the Moncada barracks in Santiago. Half of them died, most after torture. Many went to prison. Fidel Castro's brother Raul explained the event: 'It was not a putsch designed to score an easy victory without the masses. It was a surprise action to disarm the enemy and arm the people, with the aim of beginning armed revolutionary action it marked the start of an action to transform Cuba's political, economic and social system and put an end to the foreign oppression, poverty, unemployment, ill health and ignorance that weighed upon our country and our people.'

Fidel Castro was among those captured and imprisoned. In his defence speech, immortalised as 'History will absolve me', Castro identified three social forces that would determined his revolutionary strategy and alliances.

he Cuban revolution was a turning point in recent history. With Castro's regime in place, Cuba became an important player in the global power of the Soviet Union and the severity of the Cold War. Castro was involved in unsuccessful rebellions in Venezuela, Guatemala and Bolivia, which caused Cuba to isolate itself from the surrounding world. The communist regime in Cuba gave the U.S.S.R. an ally neighboring the United States during the Cold War, thus bringing the threat of nuclear war to an all time high. Castro presents no immediate danger to the U.S. today, but his status as dictator is still highly opposed by many nations because of the violations of human rights practiced under his rule.

The voices of Cubans living on the island have been largely absent from the worldwide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the revolution. The pressure in Cuba to talk the talk cultivated silence in the public sphere. But surprisingly these interviews are laced with hidden histories of religiosity, migration, family separation, surveillance and control. They dramatise the ways people embraced, succumbed to, and resisted conforming to the official model of the good Cuban.