The Cuban Revolution

cuben leader

Apr 21, 1926

Cuban leader Fidel Castro 1926 established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military tyranny of Fulgencio Batista in 1959.

revolution

Apr 21, 1953

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 happened

Jul 22, 1953

The cuban revolution started in 1953 and went into 1956

cuban flag

Jul 26, 1953

by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the U.S.-backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.

power

Jul 26, 1953

Castro had come to power with the support of most Cuban city dwellers on the basis of his promises to restore the 1940 constitution, create an honest administration

CHE

Apr 21, 1956

In 1954 Che met cuban revolutionary fidel castro and his brother raul while in mexico guevara became part of Fidel castros efforts to overdo the batista government in cuba.

field castro

Apr 21, 1956

45 years of unremitting US propaganda against Fidel Castro, the Cuban government and Cuban society.

castros birth

Apr 21, 1958

Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, a small town in eastern Cuba. His father was a wealthy Spanish sugarcane farmer who first came to the island during the Cuban War of Independence 1895 1898.

what happend

Apr 21, 1959

The Cuban Revolution 1953 trough 1959 was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castros 26th of July Movement and its allies against the US-backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista