The cuban crisis and foreign policy

"Fidel go ahead Hit the Yankees on the head". Of all things, this was the catchcry of thousands of Cubans marching about the Plaza de Revolucion, where Fidel Castro was yet to make another declaration, at the end of 1960. What prompted the expression of this attitude towards America by Cubans can be linked to a number of factors resulting from the foreign policies dictated by the Castro government, after the revolution that brought it to …

…had been lacking. Such domestic reforms drastically affected Cuba's relationship with the U.S. because of the blatant disregard adopted by Castro for the nation that had invested $1.2 billion in the fatherland in 1924 according to Paul Johnson's "A History of the Modern World", whilst also attracting American Communist fear. In retaliation, President Eisenhower withdrew the sugar quota and put a total trade embargo on Cuba in 1960, severing all diplomatic ties by the 3rd of January, 1961.