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Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful revolt against the Batista regime.
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Castro lands in eastern Cuba from Mexico and takes to the Sierra Maestra mountains where, aided by Ernesto "Che" Guevara, he wages a guerrilla war.
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The US withdraws military aid to Batista.
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In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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Castro leads a 9,000-strong guerrilla army into Havana, forcing Batista to flee. Castro becomes prime minister.
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All US businesses in Cuba are nationalised without compensation; US breaks off diplomatic relations with Havana and imposes a trade embargo in response to Castro's reforms.
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failed invasion of cuba by via rebels in aprial, 1961 embarrassment to jfk administration.
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13 days in 1962 in which the U.S., Cuba, and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war over the installment of missile sites in Cuba by the Soviets
