In response to balancing the power to fit both sides when the Cuban government was overthrown by Fidel Castro and became the first Communist government in the western hemisphere, it received support for the Soviet Union, much like America gave to the democratic followers. ... This Revolutionary government caused great concern among the American government, because they had 60 years of investment and trade. The Cuban government was now beginning to question the American industries in Cuba and issues such as these were what lead America to distrust the Castro government. ... Right off the bat...

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Governor Ross Barnett and other state executives pursued disregarding the Supreme Court verdict, inciting a constitutional calamity amongst the federal government and the state of Mississippi. ... Subsequently, the unsuccessful United States endeavor to take over the Castro regime in Cuba with the Bay of Pigs invasion, and while the Kennedy administration calculated Operation Mongoose, in July 1962 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev finally achieved a undisclosed pact with Cuban premier Fidel Castro to situate Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to prevent any imminent attack endeavors. ... These pi...

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The international case I chose was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. ... Placing this kind of weapons in Cuba would detonate the United States government to a potential attack against the Soviet Union. Fidel Castro the president of Cuba approved the placing of weapons in Cuba due to the fact that he was measuring a way to secure and defend his country from potential U.S attacks. ... Kennedy demanded that the Soviets had to withdraw all of their offensive weapons and missiles from Cuba. ... States would have attacked Cuba and it would all have turned out into a big battlefield of nuclear weapon...

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He called himself a "Marxist-Leftist" and ruled over Cuba with an iron fist. ... Cubans were fleeing to the Miami coast as quickly as they could. ... But is it really as bad as our government makes it out to be? ... However, to the person growing up in a third world country, or an eastern civilization, Communism might be more attractive than their present form of government, if one exists at all. ... He sent the 1,500 invaders to Cuba; most of them were captured. ...

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The United States government feared that the unrest would eventually lead to a communist takeover, so they discretely established contact with Batista to help him run Cuba during the presidency of five different presidents, until they felt he was ready to be president. ... So many people hated Batista that Cuba became unified against him and Fidel became the leader of the resistance to Batista's government. ... While still in prison, Fidel found out that his wife was working for Batista's government and was demanding a divorce. ... Fidel immediately began leading the revolution ag...

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STAGE 5 The Aftermath THE CUBAN missile crisis has had important long-term effects. Even during the crisis itself, some of us in the U.S. government, and I presume in the Soviet government as well, were thinking ahead to the future. ... In the years following the missile crisis the Soviet Union was not disposed to attempt again to deploy elements of its strategic nuclear power in Cuba, and the United States was not disposed to invade Cuba. ... As earlier noted, the United States had never issued any public or official statement of a commitment...

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The Bay of Pigs invasion was organized by the CIA and was intended to overthrow Castro, whose Communist government, in Cuba, lay just 90 miles from the Florida coast. ... The attempt on the invasion of Cuba was a total failure . ... The Cuban government later released the captured exiles after a ransom was paid. ... In reality we have to look no further than the American government. ... American destroyers hovered near the Cuban coast, as crewmen painted over the vessels name, so the Cubans wouldn't recognize them. ...

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