Tuesday, March 8, 2016
CUBAAAAAAAAAAAa
Today in class we started talking about Cuba. We talked about how Fidel Castro came into power and started to screw everything up. He was a total dictator, who was executed civilians, he was a just not a good leader. Castro then nationalized American holdings in Cuba. In response President Eisenhower cut Cuba's sugar market by 95%; and he recruited Cuban exiles to the CIA to burn sugar cane fields in Cuba. Since we were still in the Cold War against the USSR anything that was unpleasant to the US the USSR was right behind it. So Cuba was a big unpleasantry, and of course the USSR supported and helped Cuba with it's tomfoolery. That's about all we got to in the video. But essentially at this time, we were not very fond of Castro, Cuba, or the USSR.
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You did a nice job of explaining what we learned in class yesterday. Another thing that is important is that U.S. corporations had a lot of land in Cuba, so communism in Cuba would have hurt the U.S. economy. This is another reason why the U.S. was not fond of the situation in Cuba.
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