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Methods used to establish the authoritarian state - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Absorbed by the Communist Party of Cuba
- - - - The majority of rebels were killed or captured (about only 20 made it to the Sierra Maestra)
      - Nowadays, the Granma is considered a sacred symbol of the Revolution
- - - - Increasement of numbers leading to the parting of the force into three. Keeping one for himself and the the other two to Raul his brother and Che Guevara.
  - - - By highlighting Castro's success, more people joined the battle on Castro's side
        Increasing the size of his followers with the expansion of military operations
- - - - The goal was to replace the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista
      - Takes form of a raid against the Moncada army barracks in the city of Santiago de Cuba
        
        Majority of the group was killed and both Castro brother end up imprisioned with a sentence of 15 years (end up only serving 2 years)
        
        Builds Castro's reputation as a revolutionary leader, and he begans to be viewed as a potential alternative to Batista's government
    - - A failed assault on Cuban military barracks was carried out
      - By the end of 1958 however the July 26th movement gains the upper hand
        
        Batista is forced to flee Cuba and Castro assumes the role off head of government
    - - The revolutionaries are however ambushed as Batista's forces become aware of this before their attack
        
        Che Guevara, Fidel and Raul Castro manage to once again escape
        
        Reach the Sierra Mountains
        
        Attract more members and begin a guerilla campaign
        
        Virtual state of Civil War is initiated which last around two years
        
        Revolutionary forces carry out attacks on government officials and plantations
        
        Batista's forces hunts down anyone suspected of collaborating with Castro and his supporters
        
        Free speech and assemblies suspended
        
        Calls for planned presidential election to be postponed due to ongoing violence
        
        Major military offensive against revolutionaries in the Sierra mountains in summer of 1958
        
        Revolutionaries turned back the offensive and Batista's supporters continue to erode even in the midst of ongoing elections for his successor
        
        December 1958: Guevara’s forces defeat a much larger army garrison in the Battle of Santa Clara and capture a train loaded with vital arms and ammunition
        
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        International media shows support for Castro and the cause of the revolutionaries, leading to the US beginning to relenquish its ties to Batista in 1958
- - - - With an amulet of Our Lady of Charity and an M-2 rifle --> travel in an open-top Jeep, stopping at the major towns with speeches that would last for hours
        
        According to the British ambassador, the crowds saw in him ‘a mixture of [Cuban independence icon] José Martí, Robin Hood, Garibaldi and Jesus Christ’
        
        Manuel Urrutia, liberal judge, named president of the republic
        
        rebel parties knew he was too politically green to exercise control
        
        in Havana the Second Front did not take army bases or government buildings --> leader Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo, stressed that there was still a chance of a military coup against the revolution said that the Second Front must patrol the capital’s streets
        
        Revolutionary Directorate acquired weapons, storing them in the university, and took the presidential palace
        
        When the M26 legates arrived in Havana, Castro ordered to take the garrisons
        
        Barquín cornered --> handed Cienfuegos and the M26 the most important barracks in Cuba
        
        Castro’s charisma and determination secure nation’s critical infrastructure --> dominant
        
        caravana made a significant detour to the southern city of Cienfuegos --> important naval base and Castro wanted to pay homage to its marines, who had revolted against Batista in 1957
        
        Cienfuegos was being governed by a gringo, William Morgan. Castro told Morgan: ‘In Cuba there is only one triumphant revolution and no separate little groups.’
        
        final morning of his journey --> stopped at Cárdenas to meet the family of José Antonio Echeverría, the late leader of the Revolutionary Directorate
        
        Castro had called Echeverría a ‘terrorist’. Now he hugged his crying mother and petitioned his sister to mediate with Echeverría’s successors
        
        Castro only 90 miles from Havana
        
        Castro entered Havana ‘the crowds were so tumultuous and the ranks of marches so unruly that it was impossible to differentiate the procession from the audience,’ --> photojournalist Burt Glinn
        
        rebels sat on Chevrolet bonnets, human pyramids on tanks and peasants on horseback, barefoot beggars and leathery shoe shiners --> everyone on the street
        
        chant, ‘Viva la revolución!’
        
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