Cuba after the war• Teller Amendment – Amendment to war

resolution that U.S. would NOT annex Cuba…. 4 years after war U.S. still governs Cuba

• Platt Amendment – 1900 -1901 Cuba writes constitution U.S. insists on adding an amendment

1. No treaties that limit independence

2. U.S. reserves the right to intervene

3. No debt for Cuba

4. U.S. buy/lease land for naval base

CRISIS OVER CUBA

Timeline of events• 1945: Yalta Agreement

1947: Truman Doctrine1947: Marshal Plan1948: Berlin Airlift1949: NATO formed1950: Korean War begins.1952: U.S. tests first hydrogen bomb in Marshall Islands.1953: Soviet Union tests first hydrogen bomb.1953: Korean War ends.1955: Warsaw Pact organized1957: Launch of Sputnik1950s: McCarthy Hearings1961: Berlin Wall built1961: Bay of Pigs1962: Cuban Missile Crisis1963: Installation of a Hot Line

FIDEL CASTRO

• “Revolutionaries are not born. They are made by poverty, inequality, and dictatorship.”

• Rebellious, Populist, “Machismo”• National hero two goals are to “shake Cuba of

American dependence” and “have more than a sugar industry”

• Tired of Cubans: going to American colleges, having a second home in USA

• By 1950: he had 1,200 followers (into 150 cells)• 1957: Sabotage, Guerilla Tactics, Nationwide strikes,

Sought Communist help to train/organize/funding• Jan 1st, 1959: Overthrew Batista government

Why is Cuba so important?

• Gulf-Atlantic-Caribbean shipping lanes• the Panama Canal• the Guantanamo Naval Base• Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, Sugar!!!!! So

much sugar!!!!!

Options?

• 1. Avoid altogether?• 2. Warn/Threaten but do not act (until

attacked)?• 3. Warn/Threaten and act?• 4. Do not warn… just act.