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media type="custom" key="9498882" Time 1. Within 2 days 1300 well armed "north american mercinaries" were defeated by castros army. The revolutionary army sustained heavy casulties but overcame the invading force "that was backed by the US"; which fled the main land on boats and into swamps. Eventually the mercinaries were mostly all killed or captured. The cuban army aquired many american made small armes and sherman tanks after beating the invading force with the help of soviet artillary, and air support. After the communists victory castro announced that they had a great victory over the radio stations and that they would have the biggest parade in cuban history. The revolution army ended up with 400 prisoners.

Time 4. 2000 to 3000 soviate troops were confirmed to be stationed in cuba and the people of america were anxious about a possible attack. President Jimmy Carter assured the people that the force wasent an attack force and didnt have the capability to attack the US. He also stated that the government was taking it seriously and was pursuing the matter with the soviets. This news came right in the middle of a important debate about the SALT 2 treaty, and because of this some of the US senate didnt trust the Soviets and demanded that the act be postponed.

Time 5 For awhile now inteligence sources have warned that the soviet union was helping cuba set up missile compounds that could carry nuculear weapons. This was the beggining of the cubban missle crisis. Over night forests had been cleared and replaced by missle bases, and soviet union tents had been poping up everywhere. Planes flying as low as 200ft where ordered by the president to take as many pictures as possible. Altogether 6 missle bases were constructed equipted with 2500 mile missles that could reach all us major cities, in addition the soviet union had moved in 25 twin fighting jets and 28 bombers. these pictures were taken on oct. 16 and on oct 18 after the photos were looked at by the CIA the President was notified.

BBC 3 Cuba has survives more than 40 years of US sanctions designed to topple the gov. of cuba. It aso defied predictions that it would colapse after the fall of the soviet union. Since the fall of Fulgencio Batista In 1959 Fidel Castro has led the country and controled nearly all aspects of cuban life. The communist party that leads cuba had relied on the soviet union until its fall, that when Cubas economy took a turn for the worst. The loss of money has forced the Government to tighten up its grip on food, consumer goods, and energy. ?Now Cuba relies mostly on China and Venezuela for help.

BBC 4 Cuba has announced that it is going to lay off one million workers in the next year in order to help revive the struggling ecomony. To put this into view Cubas Gov. controls 85% of the official workforce which is 5.1 million people, so altogether after this layoff 1 out of six cuban people wont have a job. This is the biggest Private sector shift since 1959 when Castro took over. Now cubas is forced to switch ower to a free enterprise economy, with restrictions. The President Raul Castro has Said that the Governments roll in the economy must shrink, so this could be a good sign for the cuban people.