Timeline (Bay of Pigs Success)

The bay of pigs attack was a success in taking Fidel Castro out of power, which left Cuba without a president. The US saw this as a huge problem since Cuba was seen to be extremely vulnerable in being taken over by the USSR, also the US had hidden interests along with stopping Cuba from being taken over by another country. The US was also interested in securing their business in Cuba, many US investors had investments in Cuban sugar plantations, cattle ranches, and mines. So the US decided to take over Cuba to keep it intact and to control the economy and to allow Americans to continue their business interests in Cuba of sugar plantations, the majority of Cuba’s cattle ranches, mines and utilities. Although USA’s takeover was just a little too late since right before Castro was killed he had already made deep relations with the USSR and communism. With the Cuban takeover it has caused the USSR to stand up to America and claim that they’re in the wrong for taking over Cuba after killing its president, this caused the USSR to be pissed off at America for ruining the ties between Cuba and themselves. This had almost lead to WWIII due to the fact that the Cubans were not happy that they were all of a sudden a part of the US, so the USSR is trying to work with Cuban rebels to overthrow the hold that the US gov. has on them. The US gov. has made the statement that if the USSR continues to help out the rebels then they will be forced to act on the USSR by stopping all communication, by stopping all trading, and if pushed far enough they will lead an attack on the USSR for trying to take over US soil in Cuba. The rebels attacks are shaking the population of Cuba, some of the population has started leaving Cuba and heading south to the Cayman Islands, while other refugees are headed to the southern tip of Florida. The rest of the population that still remain in Cuba are deeply terrified that they might die since everyday and everynight there is non-stop bombings and gunfire. The markets are low on water and food which has caused a tremendous amount of deaths to due to the fact the citizens of Cuba can’t get clean water or food from stores anymore. The situation in Cuba is dire and in order to help out the citizens of Cuba, America has been sending in care packages of fresh food, water, and medicine to help the wounded and sick.

With the US taking control of Cuba they also took over their economy which allowed for the US economy to grow tremendously due to the fact that they were now able to set the price for the sugar export from Cuba, Cuba’s exports are made up of 23% of raw sugar, Cuba was a huge component to a lot of countries in their sugar trade. Although with the US making the price of sugar increase it slowed the export of sugar since the Price level of sugar had risen so dramatically, which at the same time also slowed down the US economy to where the economy was only growing at about 1% instead of it’s usual 2-3% range. England was very upset with the US for raising the price of sugar, which caused the relations between the US and many other countries to become unsteady.

John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald. JFK didn’t believe that there was going to be a war with any other countries because he believed that there was a way for the US to handle their current predicament. After JFK was killed, Lyndon B. Johnson became the new president of the United States. His first action as president was to declare a full blown war on the USSR, as he thought that JFK was too weak to do it himself. LBJ believed in settling disputes through fighting and war instead of discussing the problems that had arisen from the Cuban takeover. With tensions high in other countries due to the Cuban takeover and the Sugar price level increases, it was easy for the other countries like England, USSR, and China, Mexico to be on board with a full on World War with the US.

Timeline

1959: July 26- Fidel Castro overthrows the dictatorial President Fulgencio Batista

1960: May- Castro established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union

1960: June- President Eisenhower authorized the CIA to recruit 1,400 Cuban exiles living in Miami and begin training them to overthrow Castro.

1961: April- The CIA launched the bay of pigs attack on Cuba, it was a success

May- The US takes hold of the Cuban government

1962: January- Rebel attacks start against US hold of Cuban government

1963: November 22- JFK assassinated

November 23- LBJ takes office

November 24- LBJ starts WWIII