Cuba By: Andrew S. Jada f. stephanie m. alexa z.
Claim 1: "The Cold War forced the world to align with a superpower ideologically, economically, or militarily." Cuba and Russia are economically and politically related because of the embargo and the Cuban Missile Crisis. When the United States put the embargo on Cuba, Vladimir Putin of Russia helped Fidel Castro to get rid of it. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union sent military weapons and nuclear missiles to Cuba because the US placed missiles in Turkey and Italy. The nuclear war was dodged by the Soviets withdrawing their missiles if the US withdrew theirs and never invaded Cuba.
Claim 2: