Fidel Castro - The Cuban Missile Crisis

If you have been studying Fidel Castro for some time, you know by now the relationship between the United States of America and Cuba was not awesome. The Cuban Missile Crisis followed from the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in October 1962. What triggered this episode was Washington and Moscow confronted each other with the Soviet placement of nuclear missiles on Cuba. With 13 days of negotiations the Soviets agreed to remove and dismantle the sites. However, USA had to sacrifice something as well, which became their own nuclear missiles which was located in Turkey. Furthermore, they promised not to invade Cuba. This was a disappointment to the great Castro who now face a future without the protecting of the Soviet. 



All information is from Pearsons 'History, 20th Century World, Authoritarian and single-Party States', 2010