This would influence some of the decisions he took in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Narrator: In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew a corrupt right-wing dictatorship, and took power in Cuba.

Summary and Key Points: During the Cuban ... ballistic missile (ICBM) battalions, among numerous other types of weapons ranging from tank divisions to missile boats, to Fidel Castro’s Cuba.

As the tensions of the Missile Crisis escalated ... fifteen years after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro made what was perhaps the most important choice of his life, one which ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred over 13 unnerving ... puppet presidents or engaged in some form of coup d'états, with Fidel Castro and his 800 guerrilla warriors forcing Batista to flee the ...

26 showing further missile ... after Fidel Castro ousted US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista, culminating with the botched Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 — years before the missile crisis erupted ...

Fidel Castro shares at least one belief with ... He was one of the three key players in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that nearly brought about the destruction of the planet.

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded ... in a new window] Key players: Cuban leader Fidel Castro (top left), Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ...

As the tensions of the Missile Crisis escalated ... fifteen years after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro made what was perhaps the most important choice of his life, one which ...

On his return to the presidency on January 20, Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor Joe Biden’s short-lived removal of Cuba from the State Sponsor of ...

Challenges: The arms race with the Soviet Union continued and escalated in the Cuban Missile Crisis. John F. Kennedy agreed to a CIA plan which attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro by sending a band of ...

HAVANA — Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to ... the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later that brought the world to the brink ...