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Cuban Revolution
History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fulgencio Batista | Former president and later dictator of Cuba prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Worked with U.S. |
| Fidel Castro | former communist dictator of Cuba who ousted Fulgencio Batista in the 1959 Cuban Revolution |
| Cold War | sociopolitical, military, and economic conflict between the worlds Western capitalist democracies(Western Europe and U.S.) and it's Eastern communist regimes (USSR and China) from the end of WWII through 1991. |
| communist | an economic system wherein private ownership is largely forbidden and all industries and resources are under control of the state |
| coup | the act of overthrowing an existing governing authority |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 Cold War event wherein the Soviet union, with the agreement of the Castro regime, placed intermediate and medium range ballistic missiles on the island of Cuba which were capable of striking the United States |
| embargo | economic policy which blocks all trade with a given nation, typically due to safety and/or humanitarian concerns; embargoes are also enacted to sanction enemy nations |
| John F. Kennedy | president of the United states at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Nikita Kruschev | leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Soviet Union | abridged name to describe the former communist government of Russia during the Cold War; also known as USSR |