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Mind Map by Nicholas Farrington, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Nicholas Farrington
almost 10 years ago
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USA's Response to the Cuban
Revolution
- Influence
- Influenced Cuban
people with
propaganda to discredit Castro
- Influenced Cuban
people with
propaganda to discredit Castro
- Invade
- Bay of Pigs - April 1961 exiles landed at Bay of Pigs,
Met by 20,000 armed cuban troops, Invasion failed
- Castro captured or killed
all exiles that invaded
within days
- Bay of Pigs - April 1961 exiles landed at Bay of Pigs,
Met by 20,000 armed cuban troops, Invasion failed
- Destabilise
- CIA looked at disrupting
Cuban economy by
damaging Sugar
plantations
- USA refused to buy Cuban's
main export, Sugar cane.
- USA refused to buy Cuban's
main export, Sugar cane.
- Plans to assassinate Castro
were under way
- CIA looked at disrupting
Cuban economy by
damaging Sugar
plantations
- Disrupt
- American companies in Cuba
refused to co-operate with any
Cuban businesses, which used oil
or other materials imported from
the USSR
- January 1961, President JFK broke
diplomatic relations with Cuba. No
longer prepared to have a soviet
satellite in their sphere of influence
- American companies in Cuba
refused to co-operate with any
Cuban businesses, which used oil
or other materials imported from
the USSR
- Discredit
- American media broadcast a
relentless stream of criticism of
Castro and his regime on TV
- American media broadcast a
relentless stream of criticism of
Castro and his regime on TV
- Pressurise
- Made Cuba think US was going to
invade until after Bay of Pigs
- Castro and Khrushchev became
suspicious of US policy
- Made Cuba think US was going to
invade until after Bay of Pigs
- Ignore
- After half hearted attempt at bay of
pigs, clear that US was unwilling to
get directly involved in Cuba
- encouraged spread of communism
- encouraged spread of communism
- After half hearted attempt at bay of
pigs, clear that US was unwilling to
get directly involved in Cuba
- Send
aid
- Rather then direct invasion, JFK
supplied arms, equipment & transport
for 1,400 anti-castor exiles to invade
Cuba and overthrow him
- CIA provided support and
funds to Cuban exiles in
attempt to overthrow Castro
- Rather then direct invasion, JFK
supplied arms, equipment & transport
for 1,400 anti-castor exiles to invade
Cuba and overthrow him
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