US/Cuban Relations

The Cuban Revolution,The Bay of Pigs Invasion,The Cuban Missile Crisis

US/Cuban RelationsEarly 1950’s

• US trade

• Growing anti-communism attitude

• CIA covert operations

Cuban Revolution

• Fulgencio Batista

• Castro’s failed attack-1953

• Revolutionary Campaign-1953-1959

• Long-awaited Success-1959

• Castro takes control

Eisenhower/Kennedy

• Castro cuts out US involvement

• Eisenhower’s plan

• CIA

• 1960 election

• Kennedy’s enthusiasm

• Cover up

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The Plan

• The Attack

• Failure

• Kennedy’s embarrassment

• Soviet support of Cuba

• US nuclear bases near USSR• Soviet missile sites in Cuba• Kennedy’s skepticism• U-2 Flights

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Soviet Missile Sites

• Kennedy’s Naval Quarantine

• Troops Assembled

• Soviet Deals

• Nuclear War averted

Aftermath

• US trade embargo of Cuba

• Castro’s ruin of Cuban economy

The End