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Fidel Castro's military revolutionary movement in Santiago de Cuba which eventually toppled Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship in 1959.
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Fidel Castro's speech in his own defense against the charges brought against him for the Moncada Barracks.
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Che Guevara arrives in Mexico City.
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Batista dissolves parliament and is elected constitutional president without opposition.
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Under an amnesty from Batista, Fidel and surviving members of his movement are released from prison. Castro starts plotting invasion of Cuba.
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Fidel Castro and his brother, Raúl Castro are introduced to Che Guevara in Mexico City.
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Fidel Castro, with some 80 insurgents including Raúl Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos set sail from Mexico for Cuba on the yacht Granma. They land in Oriente Province on 2nd December.
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Castro's guerrillas score their first success by pillaging an army outpost on the south coast. He started gaining followers in both Cuba and abroad.
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University students mount a failed attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.
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Castro's '26 July' movement overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
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Cuban revolutionary Frank País is killed in the streets of Santiago de Cuba by police while campaigning for the overthrow of Batista government.
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Raúl Castro opens a front in the Sierra de Cristal on Oriente's north coast.
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U.S. suspends shipments of arms to Batista's forces.
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Castro calls for a general revolt.
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A general strike is partially observed, organised by the '26 July' movement.
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Batista sends an army of 10,000 into the Sierra Maestra to destroy Castro's 300 armed guerrillas. By August, the rebels had defeated the army's advance and captured a huge amount of arms.
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A Cuban aircraft en route from Miami to Havana is hijacked by militants but crashes. The hijackers were trying to land at Sierra Cristal in Eastern Cuba to deliver weapons to Raúl Castro's rebels. It is the first of what was to become many Cuba-U.S. hijackings.
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Guevara directs a rebel attack on Santa Clara. On 28th December, Guevara's guerrilla troops seize Santa Clara. On the 31st, Camilo Cienfuegos leads revolutionary guerrillas to victory in Yaguajay.
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Fidel Castro leads his troops into Havana, and the president flees the city.
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The rebel leader Fidel Castro became the Prime Minister, and elections were set up to elect other officials.
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The people in America greeted Castro like a hero, but some were nervous around him because they had heard he was a communist. They later learn they were right.