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Published: 20.11.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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In Cuba, 1962, was where one of the major conflicts between the US and USSR took place--the Cuban Missile Crisis. However before 1959, the US and Cuba were really close, nearly all its industry, electricity production, railways and the entire telephone system were owned by the Americans. What happened that had changed their relation so rapidly, and why did it take place?
Firstly, the Cuban Revolution in 1959, in which a nationalist Fidel Castro became the Cuban leader, who wanted nothing more than making Cuba independent of US control. Since 1989, the US had a great deal of influence over Cuba. It was "an ideal target for US economic exploitation" Despite the Cuban leader before the revolution, Fulgencio Batista, was a brutal and corrupted military dictator, he protected and encouraged the Americans' investments in Cuba. Unlike Fidel Castro who had nationalized all the US owned property in Cuba, he was viewed as a threat to the US investments in Cuba. …

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