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Civil Rights Movement Bay Of Pigs
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Cuban Missile Crisis Bay Of Pigs
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1,187 words... ack of the missiles, which had been camouflaged and moved soon after Kennedys speech. Low flying spy planes encountered heavy fire and on October 27 Cubans shot down a U- 2 plane, killing its pilot. After this the Kennedy administration debated the question of an air strike on Cuba, but retaliation ran the risk of killing some Soviets, which could escalate the crisis. Kennedy knew that the American public would support the decision of removing the missiles in Turkey, but he did not want to b...
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1,674 wordsCastro Rise The Power Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz became involved with political protests as a young student. After Batista s coup in 1952, he went to court and tried to have the Batista dictatorship declared illegal. However, his attempt to peacefully bring down the Batista government did not work, and so in 1953, Castro turned toward violent means. On July 26, 1953, Castro led a group of men to attack the Moncada military fortress. However, his little rebellion was immediately crushed by the Batista ...
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394 wordsDemographics. Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, 90 miles south of Florida. Cuba's population is 11, 096, 395 (July 1999 est. ). Cuba's capitol is Havana, and Spanish is the language spoken there. Cuba's population is 51 % mulatto, 37 % white, 11 % black and 1 % Chinese. Economics. The economy in Cuba is dependant on the state, which controls virtually all foreign trade. Tourism is a major factor in Cuba's economy. Cuba's export com...
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3,119 wordsHistory of Cuba Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Cuba on October 28, 1492, during his initial westward voyage. In honor of the daughter of Ferdinand V and Isabella I of Spain, his benefactors, Columbus named it Juana, the first of several names he successively applied to the island. It eventually became known as Cuba, from its aboriginal name, Cubanascnan. Colonization by Spain When Columbus first landed on Cuba it was inhabited by the Ciboney, a friendly tribe related to the Arawak....
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Lyndon B Johnson Brothers And Sisters
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3,050 wordsIn 1976, the US Senate ordered a fresh inquiry into the assassination of John F Kennedy, who was murdered in 1963 during a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. People who had been involved in the original Warren Commission investigations were asked to make fresh statements. The FBI and the CIA were persuaded to release more of their documents on Oswald. New lines of inquiry were opened and individuals who had not previously given evidence were persuaded to come forward. Most important of all, pieces of e...
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790 wordsJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy A. Family and Educational Background John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born of May 29, 1917 and was the second son of nine children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. The ancestors before him were of Wexford County in Ireland. John F. Kennedys father served as first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a US ambassador to Great Britain during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. His mother was the daughter of John F. Fitzgerald who was al...
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Latin American Countries World War Ii
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1,093 wordsThe Cuban Missle Crisis According to Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, in May 1962 he conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba as a means of countering an emerging lead of the United States in developing and deploying strategic missiles. He also presented the scheme as a means of protecting Cuba from another United States-sponsored invasion, such as the failed attempt at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. After obtaining Fidel Castro's approval, the Soviet Union worked quickly ...
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