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Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro. BY: Greg Johnson. Information. Fidel was a very rich man. He was also smart, His favorite subject was military history. Fidel attended a corrupt school. (The kids could buy the test answers) In 1947 Fidel forgot studying and through him self into politics. Information.

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Fidel Castro

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  1. Fidel Castro BY: Greg Johnson

  2. Information • Fidel was a very rich man. • He was also smart, His favorite subject was military history. • Fidel attended a corrupt school. (The kids could buy the test answers) • In 1947 Fidel forgot studying and through him self into politics.

  3. Information • In the summer of 1947 Fidel joined his 1st foreign avenger, and got military training. • In his 1st mission he had to jump off the ship he was on and swim 8 miles across shark invested waters. • After that Fidel kind of started his own group or mob.

  4. Information • On October 12 1948 Fidel married / Mirta- Diaz- Balart. • They had a son on September 1st 1949 • Fidel was more focused on politics then on money. • This upset his wife.

  5. Information • Around 1952 Fidel made a attempt to capture a military base so he could get weapons and other military supplies. • It was a big fail he was captured and put on trial. • Fidel said “ I do not fear prison.” • Fidel planed to restore Cuba’s constitution of 1940.

  6. Information • On May 15th 1955 Fidel was released from prison, then he went to Mexico. • He immediately started to recruit people from Cuba, he brought them to Mexico and gave them military training. • In 1956 Fidel bought weapons and a 56 foot yacht. • On December 2nd 1956 Fidel returned to Cuba.

  7. Information • 2 years and 1 month after returning to Cuba Fidel ruled it. • Fidel did not win from war but through propaganda, disappearing of his rivals, and unremitting sabotage in the cities.

  8. Information • Fidel’s first attack on Cuba happened on January 17,1957. Fidel and 28 men attacked the a tiny garrison. • He captured and burned it, taking guns, ammo, and food. • It was the first rebel victory with no men lost.

  9. Information • All of the rebel’s strikes were on a small scale. • American press built Fidel’s reputation. • In March, 58 recruits came and joined the rebels.

  10. Information • On May 28, 1957 the rebels stormed the base at El Uvero west of Santiago, they capture a truck of supplies, which they needed badly. • This attack showed that Fidel could defeat Cuba’s army. • Fidel was as concerned with fighting as he was in politics.

  11. Information • Unexpectedly beginning on September America CIA started to channel Fidel 50,000 dollars. • By the end of the year Fidel controlled a organized territory in sierra.

  12. Information • In this controlled area there was a mountain base with a hospital, leather workshop, butcher factory, cigar factory, and a issued mimeographed news paper. • They slept in wooden shacks or hammocks and rarely bathed. • They had long beards and wore scruffy olive drab uniforms.

  13. Information • The men got supplies through road less mountain by mule train, the supplies went through small villages that acted like look out bases, They spotted and strangers and suspicious activity. • Weapons were hard to get up to the base because the Cuban army guarded the base of the mountain but they managed to get some weapons through.

  14. Information • Fidel turned Cuba into a dictatorship. • Fidel might still be alvie today some people say that he is dead but no one is sure.

  15. The End

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