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Cuban Revolution

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The Cuban Revolution was an armed insurgency waged from 26 July 1953, when Fidel Castro led an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, to 1 January 1959, when the government of General Fulgencio Batista collapsed and Castro's 26th of July Movement entered Havana. Batista had seized power in a 1952 coup that cut short Cuba's constitutional elections, and the movement that eventually overthrew him drew together Castro's own guerrilla column in the Sierra Maestra, urban resistance networks, and later his brother Raul Castro and the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara. Batista fled the island on New Year's Eve 1958 as rebel forces closed on the capital, and the new government that followed set Cuba on the path to a one-party socialist state aligned with the Soviet Union, reshaping Cold War politics in the Western Hemisphere for the following three decades. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year
1953 1
Location
Cuba 1
Classification
Event Type
Military Conflict 1
Connections

Associated With

Cuba, Polities
Additional Source Wikipedia: Cuban RevolutionLead section (location)

Causes

Cuban Missile Crisis, Events

Why this is disputed. Historians debate the relative weight of Cuba's post-revolutionary alignment with the Soviet Union among the crisis's several causes (Turkey/Italy missile parity, the Bay of Pigs aftermath, Cuban-Soviet alignment); this edge records one contributing cause, not the sole one.

Additional Source Wikipedia: Cuban Missile CrisisLead section (Soviet motivations)

In Era

The Cold War, Eras

Participant

Fidel Castro, Historical Figures
Additional Source Wikipedia: Cuban RevolutionLead section (leadership)
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Took Place In

Cuba

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject took place.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Cuban Revolution
Wikipedia
  • Lead section (Background)
    The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état, in which Batista overthrew the emerging Cuban democracy and consolidated power.
  • Lead section (dates)
    26 July 1953 - 1 January 1959
  • Lead section (location)
    Cuba
  • Cuban Revolution: Event Type
    Batista fled the island on New Year's Eve 1958 as rebel forces closed on the capital, and the new government that followed set Cuba on the path to a one-party socialist state aligned with the Soviet Union, reshaping Cold War politics in the Western Hemisphere for the following three decades.
  • Participant: Fidel Castro, Lead section (leadership)
    Following the attack's failure, Fidel Castro and his co-conspirators were arrested and formed the 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) in detention.
  • In Group: Events of the Early Cold War and Decolonization, 1945 to 1969, Lead
    The Cuban Revolution (Spanish: Revolución cubana) was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959.
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Wikipedia: Cuban Missile Crisis
WikipediaCauses: Cuban Missile Crisis, Lead section (Soviet motivations)
Quote, Causes: Cuban Missile Crisis, Lead section (Soviet motivations)
concerns about Cuban alignment with China
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