1. By: Jerry Moore

2.  Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, ( born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011.CubancommunistPrime Minister of Cuba PresidentFirst SecretaryCommunist Party of Cuba

3.  On the international stage, he also served as the Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and 2006 to 2008.Non-Aligned Movement

4.  Castro subsequently became Commander in Chief of the armed forces and shortly thereafter became Prime Minister. The United States was alarmed by his involvement in the overthrow of Batista and relationship with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, implementing an economic blockade of the island. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower also ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to overthrow him, which they unsuccessfully tried through multiple assassination attempts and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.Commander in Chiefarmed forces Nikita KhrushchevDwight D. EisenhowerCentral Intelligence Agency Bay of Pigs invasion

5. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The invasion was launched in April 1961, less than three months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency in the United States. The Cuban armed forces, trained and equipped by Eastern Bloc nations, defeated the invading combatants within three days.CIACuban exilesUS governmentCuban government Fidel CastroJohn F. Kennedypresidency in the United States Cuban armed forces Eastern Bloc

6.  The Cuban missile crisis —known as the October crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean crisis (Russian: K арибский кризис ) in the USSR—was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other; the crisis occurred in October 1962, during the Cold War. In August 1962, after some unsuccessful operations by the US to overthrow the Cuban regime (Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose), the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium- range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles (MRBMs and IRBMs) with the ability to strike most of the continental United States.CubaRussianSoviet UnionCold WarBay of PigsOperation Mongoosemedium- rangeintermediate-range ballisticcontinental United States