The year is 1959 and the place is Cuba. It is January 1st and Batista, the president of Cuba has just fled the country fearing Fidel Castro, a Cuban revolutionary who mounted a rebel force called the 26th of July Movement against Batista. Castro assumes power on the 16th of February and establishes a dictatorship. Communist Rule In Cuba So far, the Soviet leader, Khrushchev is in question of what political track Castro is deciding to …showed first 75 words of 1480 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1480 total…with China where they see him as a coward in retreating. The people of the United States saw this as their own victory with the removal of the nuclear threat. Bibliography Castro, Fidel. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, 1998 ed. Cuban Missile Crisis. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, 1998 ed. Khrushchev, Nikita. Khrushchev Remembers. USA: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Rubin stein, Alvin Z. Soviet Foreign Policy Since World War II: Imperial and Global- Second Edition. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1985.