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BACKGROUND TO CUBAN MISSILE CRISES
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- 1TENSIONS BEGAN BETWEEN THE USA AND CUBA IN WHAT DECADE?1950S
- 2WHO WAS THE DICTATOR IN CUBA IN THE 1950SBATISTA
- 3WHAT DID HE LET AMERICA CONTROL?CUBAN INDUSTRIES
- 4WHO SUFFERED AS A RESULT?THE POOR OF CUBA
- 5WHO OVERTHREW HIM?FIDEL CASTRO
- 6IN WHAT YEAR WAS HE OVERTHROWN?1959
- 7WHAT WAS NATIONALISED AFTER THIS?THE SUGAR PLANTATIONS
- 8HOW DID THE AMERICANS REACT?THEY REFUSED TO BUY CUBAN SUGAR
- 9HOW DOES THE USSR GET INVOLVEDCASTRO TURNS TO THEM FOR HELP, THEY BUY SUGAR AND SELL THE CUBANS ARMS.
CUBA TURNS COMMUNIST. - 10WHO IS THE RUSSIAN LEADER NOW?KHRUSHCHEV
- 11WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BAY OF PIGSCUBANS WHO FLED CUBA AFTER BATISTA WAS OVERTHROWN WERE USED TO START AN INVASION AND OVER THROW CASTRO.
- 12WHAT YEAR DID THIS HAPPEN?1961
- 13WHAT DO?S CIA STAND FOR?CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
- 14WHO IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA?JFK
- 15WHY DID JFK AND THE CIA NOT SEND IN AMERICAN TROOPS?ITS A COLD WAR
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- BACKGROUND CAUSES OF CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
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- Liz Broderick · Dec 2015
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- Aug 18, 2017
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