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Vicente Bustamante
Kate Pulido
Luis Flores
Carlos Reynoso
Victor Torrejón
Erick Trejo
Ricardo Rodriguez

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After USA helped Cuba obtain their freedom from the Spanish rule in 1898, Cuba went into a serious intervention from USA in military and business, mainly investing in the island, but Cuba didn´t want to have this intervention. Americans' influence was so strong on the island they neutralized 3 military Cuban Uprisings.

Cuban revolution started and Fidel Castro became prime minister. As a political socialist leader, started having URSS as a trading partner.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the CIA coordinated terrorism on the Island, attacking its new socialist leaders. Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, political and military standoff that lasted 13 days, in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.

On 14 October 1962, a U-2 spy plane flew over Cuba and photographed Soviet nuclear missile sites being constructed. This was a huge threat to America. Cuba was only 90 miles from the coast of Florida, meaning that many of the biggest US cities, like Washington DC and New York, would be well within range of these missiles. The government believed that the lives of 80 million Americans were in danger.

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- Eliminate Russian missiles from Cuba, that represented a huge thread to the US´s national security.
- Control, as much as possible, the expansion of the communist ideology in the American continent; In Cuba, Fidel Castro was the main representative of communist ideals.

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The Soviets brought their missile equipment into Cuba in late summer 1962. A key part of Khrushchev’s strategy was that the equipment would be hidden by the Cuban jungle, so that U.S. surveillance flights over Cuba wouldn’t discover the missiles while they were being assembled. The interests of the Soviet Union was to have missiles in range to attack in any moment the US, but before that the Soviet Union and the US that made the US to retire their nuclear weapons from Turkey.

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The Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba.

America promised that they would not invade Cuba.

America secretly removed their missiles from Turkey in 1963.

A telephone hot line was set up between Washington DC and Moscow, to enable direct communication between the leaders of America and Russia.

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Nuclear Folly by Serhii Plokhy

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