Person1926 – 2016
Fidel Castro
Leader of the 1959 Cuban Revolution who made Cuba a socialist state and ruled it until 2008
Where they went
1 related event
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When the US discovered Soviet nuclear missile sites under construction in Cuba it imposed a naval blockade. For thirteen days the world stood on the brink of nuclear war until the Soviets withdrew the missiles.
People who appear alongside
- John F. Kennedy1917 – 1963
35th US president (1961–1963) who resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis and launched the Apollo programme; assassinated in Dallas in 1963
- Nikita Khrushchev1894 – 1971
First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1953–1964) who denounced Stalin and preached peaceful coexistence, yet confronted the US over the Berlin Wall and Cuba
Themes this person appears in
- The Cold War1945 – 1991
From Yalta to the dissolution of the Soviet Union — half a century in which two blocs led by the US and the USSR divided the world