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Cuba City
Castro had come to power with the support of most Cuban city dwellers on the basis of his promises to restore the 1940 constitution, also to create an honest administration. -
Revolution
The revolution began in 1952, when former army Sergeant Fulgencio Batista seized power during a hotly contested election. Batista had been president from 1940-1944 and ran for president in 1952. When it became apparent that he would lose, he seized power before the elections, which were cancelled. -
Post War Period
In a post war period things were afflicted with lacklustre economic growth and a corrupt political dictatorship set up in 1952, but by the same Batista who earlier had helped put his country on a seemingly democratic path. -
Speech
In October 1953 after getting criticized for the Santiago attack. Fidel Castro made a speech. He said that what he has done was right. -
July Movement
Batista’s fall resulted as much from internal decay as from the challenges of Fidel Castro’s 26th of July movement.
( Castro failed the attack on the Moncada military base in Santiago on July 26th, 1953 ) or from the federation of university students. -
Revolution
The revolution also heralded an area of Cuban intervention in foreign military conflicts, including the Angolan Civil War and the Nicaraguan Revolution. -
Moncada Barracks
On July 26, 1953 there was 160 revolutionaries. It was under the command of Fidel Castro launch an attack on the Moncada Barracks. It was in Santiago de cuba. -
Ruler of Cuba
Fulgencio Batista was ruler of Cuba. Fidel Castro led an uprising against him by attacking the military barracks at Santiago de Cuba. This happened in October 1953. -
Start date and the end date
The Cuban Revolution began with the assault on the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953, and ended on January 1, 1959. When Batista was driven from country Santa Clara and the city Santiago de cuba. -
American People
The people in America greeted Fidel Castro as a hero for what he did in the Cuban Revolution and whatever else he did. But some people were nervous around him because they heard he was a communist, but later they learned right in 1959.
