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Events

  • 1959 Castro takes over Batista and enters Havana
  • 500 Batista officials are tried and killed
  • Visits US
  • expropriates property
  • 1960 agreements with U.S.S.R
  • nationalization of all US companies
  • 1961 U.S cuts all relations
  • April Bay of Pigs
  • Castro announces cuba a socialist state
  • Raul takes power in Fidels health problems


Causes

  • one crop sugar dependency on foreign (US) markets
  • Platt Amendment
  • social inequality
  • uneven distribution of wealth
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