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Fidel Castro was born

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Castro enrolled at the University of Havana Law School and began his political career by preaching to his classmates about the corrupt Cuban government

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Assassination attempt leader of UIR and Castro thought as the triggerman

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Castro nominated to run as an orthodox candidate for congress in June elections

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Batista seized power in coup

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Castro leads rebels in an assault on the Moncada military barrack- attempt to topple Batista Regime

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In October of 1953 Castro revealed a revolutionary program that included the redistribution of land  to tenant farmers and included agrarian reform laws in his "History will Absolve Me" self defense.

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Castro uses visual propaganda to secure his victory by inviting foreign journalists and photographers at the mountains of the Sierra Maestra before his final push in the battle against Batista.

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Castro's guerilla tactics are working an Batista's troops are defeated in an offensive

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Castro comes back to Havana as the new leader after 2 years of beating Batista. He uses propaganda to depict himself as a strong leader and solider but in reality he was battle-worn

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The revolutionary government put into effect the Agrarian reform law. Which set a maximum amount of land per person.

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Castro made secret contacts with Soviet officials

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Deputy premier of USSR comes to Cuba to sign diplomatic trade agreements

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The revolutionary government puts in place Law 581. This gave the president and prime minister the right to nationalize US properties by Joint Resolution

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Failed Bay of Pigs invasion

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Castro formally espoused Marxism-Leninism - he is a marxist-leninist

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Cuban missle crisis

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Cuban troops assist Algeria during the Algerian-Moroccan border conflict. Castro assisting them in his attempt to be a leader of the third world nations.

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Castro set his focus on making agricultural reforms to improve the economy by increasing the sugar harvest and setting a target for national production in 1965 of 5.5 million tons, increasing to 10 million tons by 1970.

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Castro hosts first conference of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America aka the Tricontinental Congress

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Castro founds the Organization of Latin American Solidarity (OLAS)

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Castro announced that his sugarcane plans had failed

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Cubas intervention in the Angolan civil war- turning point in Cubas overseas military commitment

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Castro chairs the non-aligned movement

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Opening of radio station that broadcasted to Cuba after verbal exchanges between Regan and Castro

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Gorbachev takes power of the USSR and lessens relationship with Cuba

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Castro agrees to an American- sponsored tripartite agreement and phased withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola

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Castro visits US- invites exiles to return home and start businesses

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Castro falls ill and he stops coming out in public, and is rarely seen by other people

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Castro dies from natural causes