Economic problems continued into 1959, after the Castro government assumed power, and conditions worsened as low world sugar prices further drained Cuba's foreign exchange. ... Still, to his credit, Castro made no attempt to get rid of American property without compensation until the United States government, already committed to Castro's liquidation, suspended Cuba's sugar quota, denying Cuban sugar access to the U.S. market. ... CUBA DURING 1960-1989: After assuming power, the government of Fidel Castro implemented measures to transform the Cuban economy through radical ...

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This plan, supported by the US government got a lot of critisism from the russian states and even from western states. ... The Cuba Crisis (14.10.1962 - 28.10.1962) 14.10. ... The effects of the Cuba Crisis - The economic effects for Cuba were very big. ... -In the years 1963 - 1967 the USA first, then the SU, followed later on by France and Great Britain introduced a direct contact between the different governmental authorities. ... The State Cuba Cuba, an island state on the Great Antilles in Middleamerica, 110861km'', 10.7 million inhabitants, capital: Havanna. ...

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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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The Cuban agreement with the Czech government in June of 1960 resulted in additional deliveries of small arms and ammunition, light aircraft, military vehicles, and equipment for military factories. ... The CIA now had evidence that Cuban pilots were being trained in Czechoslovakia. ... With top US, Cuban, and Soviet officials present the US and allies could begin to ease the nuclear crisis and diplomatically disarm Cuba. ... By creating a naval blockade the US would not be allowing weapons into Cuba without imposing offensive military warfare against Cuba or the Soviets. ... The US cou...

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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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Relations between the Castro government and the United States began to decline. The new Cuban government, under Fidel Castro confiscated private property, sent agents to initiate revolutions in several Latin American countries, and established diplomatic and economic ties with leading socialist powers, such as USSR In June Congress had passed legislation enabling President Dwight D. to take retaliatory steps against Cuba. ... An invasion of Cuba had been planned by the U.S. ... On April 15, 1961, three U.S. made airplanes piloted by Cubans bombed Cuban air bases. ... The U.S. backed rebels fig...

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Thus states would not respect their political obligations unless the fear of punishment is present, the need for states to have power, economic and military, is necessary to bind governments to upholding treaties, international laws, and alliances. ... One such state was Cuba, which became an ally of Russia. ... In an effort to deter the Russians from arming Cuba with nuclear weapons the U.S imposed a naval blockade around Cuba and had the U.S. air-force prepared for attacks on Cuba and the Soviet Union. The army positioned 125,000 men in Florida and was told to wait for orders to invade Cub...

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This paradox was bought home to both superpowers in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. The Soviets were found to have built a nuclear missile base in Cuba, just under the belly of America. President Kennedy responded by blockading the island, claiming that the presence of missiles in Cuba presented a serious threat to the strategic status quo . ... The Cuban paradox led the two superpowers to reach a number of limited agreements that would set the pace for a period of thawing' in the Cold War. ... Willie Brandt was later to become Chancellor at the head of a new government in 1969, and s...

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Today the United States government spends an estimated 35.1 billion dollars a year on nuclear weapons. ... (McNamara, 1992) Now there are many speculations as to why the Soviets had began stockpiling weapons in Cuba. ... The objective of this operation was to over throw the Castro government. ... (McNamara, 1992) When the threat of an American invasion over Cuba was over Khrushchev withdrew his weapons from Cuba. The Cuban Missile crisis is a perfect example of how Nuclear Missiles can protect nations. ...

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The American government did not want to invade a Communist country for fear of retaliation by the Soviets or the Chinese (Healy 3). ... Some other major events on the Cold War were such as the crisis at Cuba in 1962 and the Vietnam War. During the Cuba crisis, it is said that the world has avoided a nuclear war by a matter of minutes. In 16th October, the United States discovered that the Soviet was placing offensive nuclear missile sites inside Cuba. ... However, the crisis ended and the missile silos in Cuba were removed. ...

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Vietnam had been divided into two, in the midst of a communist administration in the North under Ho Chi Minh and an egalitarian government in the South under Ngo Dinh Diem. ... Ho used guerilla warfare in South Vietnam, piloted by Viet Cong divisions, with the target of bringing together the country under communist decree (Westdad, Cuban and Vietnamese Challenges). ... By 1975 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia had Communist governments (Westdad, Cuban and Vietnamese Challenges). ... Students protested local and federal governments as well as Johnson's policies in Southeast Asia. ... The Sovie...

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Through coercive tactics this new government seized power in 1917 and Lenin came to power. ... These purges would later spread all throughout the government and into the public. ... However, Khrushchev's plans didn't amount to much and he was blamed for the Russian "defeat- in the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... This was the organizational restructuring of the Soviet economy and government apparatus. ... He directed much of his energy toward Chechnya, whose government had been trying to secede from Russia since 1991. ...

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The USSR invested an estimated 4 billion dollars in its attempt to put missiles in Cuba alone. ... As a consequence the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster of 1986 was publicised, embarrassing the government with claims of Soviet technological incompetence. ... The government's deficit was growing larger and imports were expanding. ... The Soviet economy was verging on bankruptcy and relied on loans from overseas to cover the shortfall between government revenue and expenditure. ... This was a policy of economic reform via privatization and reduced government expenditure. ...

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The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and p...

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In October 1956, the Polish government had trouble handling the workers' riots. ... In 1963, a hot-line was installed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and both countries agreed to only use underground testing for nuclear explosions. ...

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The difficulty infiltrating the Soviet government is precisely what the author wanted and makes his plot more interesting by making it more complex. ... Anyone speaking out against the government should have been punished. ...

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