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Spread of Communism Activity, Cuba - Coggle Diagram
Spread of Communism Activity
How the US affects that region during the Cold War?
The US was relatively close to Cuba so USSR's influence was spotted as a threat because communism was so close to America.
There was tension due with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
--->The US blockades Cuba so that the Soviet Union could not give it supplies, or missiles.
8 other facts about your region during the Cold War (can be from notes and online research)
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a major cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
America was planning an invasion before the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved.
The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted for 13 days.
Arrests, acts of torture, and executions began almost as soon as Castro took over Cuba.
The US, who was already wary of Castro's anti-American thing, saw the agreement between the USSR and Cuba as betrayal.
By May 15, 1959, 600 people linked with the opposing political party that ran against Castro were executed.
The Soviet Union also helped Cuba because they did not want to pass up the opportunity to have communism only 90 miles from the US.
At the beginning of the help of the USSR and Cuba, they agreed to trade Cuban sugar for Soviet oil.
How the USSR affects that region during the Cold War?
The USSR assisted the revolution for communism.
The revolution for Cuba to be communist was supported by the Soviet Union.
Fidel Castro and the Soviet Union try to spread communism throughout the region.
Whether or not you think the Cold War had a positive or negative effect on your reason?
I think that the Cold War had a negative effect on Cuba.
There were shortages of things and private property became government property. I think that it would have been hard for people who had small businesses, because many of those stores became nationalised. I also think that Cuban citizens were negatively affected because of the threat of nuclear war or regular war with America.
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