Cuba by Noah Keeney https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65 Noah Keeney, Robert Donley, Elizabeth Nazeeri en-us 2017-05-02 14:30:36 UTC 2025-04-06 15:15:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Brightnessdown.png Fidel Castro noahkeeney https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169437551 - Revolutionary & Politician 
- Prime Minister 1959- 1976
- President 1976- 2008
- Marxist and Cuban Nationalist


]]> 2017-05-02 14:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169437551 Marxist noahkeeney https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169440995 - Allies of the Soviets
- Dependent on the USSR
- Abolished Discrimination, Improved healthcare, and Improved Education

]]> 2017-05-02 14:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169440995 Embargo noahkeeney https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169442729 Castro Nationalized all US businesses including oil refineries, factories, and casinos. This leads to a Trade Embargo

]]> 2017-05-02 14:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169442729 Soviet Union noahkeeney https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169443763 - Close Alliance
- USSR broke apart in 1991
- Cuba struggled without its major communist counterpart.

]]> 2017-05-02 14:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169443763 Bay of Pigs noahkeeney https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169444902 April 17, 1961
Failed invasion of Cuba by the CIA ]]> 2017-05-02 14:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169444902 Cuban Missile Crisis noahkeeney https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169445423 - Nuclear Missiles were positioned 90 miles from Florida
- US citizens feared WWIII
- Kruschev removed the missiles against Castro's wishes]]> 2017-05-02 14:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169445423 Current Issue noahkeeney https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169446677 Cuba after only recently having the trade embargo lifted by the US still has many economic problems as well as technology that is significantly behind the rest of the world.]]> 2017-05-02 15:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/noahkeeney/g0frk6ws6h65/wish/169446677