The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
-America supported a corrupt regime under Batista (until Cuban revolution in 1959)
-before 1959 Cuba had many mobs and gangsters (like Al Capone)
-Havana was like Vegas at the time
-Fidel Castro took over and formed a revolution
-brought in communism (everything belonged to the government)
-first communist country in the Western Hemisphere
-aligned with the Soviets
-The Bay of Pigs was a failed invasion of Cuba by Americans in 1961
-before 1959 Cuba had many mobs and gangsters (like Al Capone)
-Havana was like Vegas at the time
-Fidel Castro took over and formed a revolution
-brought in communism (everything belonged to the government)
-first communist country in the Western Hemisphere
-aligned with the Soviets
-The Bay of Pigs was a failed invasion of Cuba by Americans in 1961
- failed because Kennedy pulled the air support at the last minute
-1962 Soviets put nuclear weapons in Cuba