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Rafael Trujillo joins a U.S. Marine training camp.
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Trujillo rose up the military ranks very rapidly and found himslef named the commander-in-chief.
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Trujillo killed off other opponents and their supporters and won the presidential election easily.
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Trujillo killed thousands of Haitian immigrants in 1937.
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Castro started law school at the University of Havana in 1950.
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In 1947 Castro joined the Caribbean Legion which was a group of political exiles from across Latin America. They wanted to overthrow the dictator led governments across the Caribbean.
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Castro traveled to Botota, Columbia and disrupted the Pan-American Union Conference. This was his first experience with an uprising.
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Castro married his fellow law school student Mirta Diaz-Balart after returning to Cuba.
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Castro graduated law school and began his practice as a lawyer.
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General Fulgencio Batista becomes dictator of Cuba after a successful coup.
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Castro and his brother alon with 160 other rebels attacked the Moncada barracks for weopons. Their attempt failed and Castro was captured.
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Castro is sentenced to 15 years in prison for the attacks on the Moncada barracks
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Castro and his brother were released and went into exile.
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Castro and other exiles returned to take back Cuba, but they had to flee into the mountains and wage a guerilla war effort from there.
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Castros forces take over Batista and his army, but Castro isn't appointed either president or prime minister.
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Castro names himself as Prime Minister.
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On his way home, seven assassins kill Trujillo.
