Timeline of the Cuban Revolution

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  • Che Guevara is Born

    Che Guevara is born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina.

  • Che Guevara begins College

    Guevara joins the University of Buenos Aires as a medical student, and takes classes for two years.

  • Guevara meets the Castros

    Guevara meets Fidel and Raul Castro during a tour of Cuba for his school, and is thereby first introduced to the Cuban Revolution.

  • Beginning of the Cuban Revolution

    The Cuban Revolution begins with an attack on Batista, the tyrranical dictator of Cuba. Guevara and Castro succeed in their first battle, but have the entire war ahead of them.

  • Revolution Ends

    Guevara and Fidel Castro's efforts pay off when they are able to take Havana from Batista, and in effect end American imperialism.

  • Cuba- a Country of Communists

    Guevara and Fidel Castro officially win the Cuban Revolution when Cuba is officially declared a communist country across the entire world. Batista's reign ends, and American imperialism disappears from Cuba.

  • Reconstruction

    Cuba is in termoil from the revolution, and needs to be built up into the nation that Fidel and Guevara pictured at the beginning of the revolution.

  • Guevara's death

    At age 39, Guevara is executed by the Bolivian government during the Bolivian Revolution on October 9, 1967.