Class Year
2022
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Fall 2021
Department 1
History
Abstract
This paper tracks the Eisenhower Administration’s shifting policy towards Cuba and its use of covert imperialism to obtain its objectives. The policy considerations of the United States centered around a convenience for American interests. The support for the Batista regime, despite its oppression, exacerbated anti-American sentiments in the Cuban Revolution and put it on a collision course with American interests. As engagement failed, Cuba nationalized, and tensions escalated, the Eisenhower Administration initiated a campaign of covert imperialism that sought a government more in line with its interests. The covert operations implemented included economic and political sabotage, assassination attempts, and the training of counter-revolutionary guerilla groups that eventually led to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Recommended Citation
Sullivan, Patrick R., "Covert Imperialism: The Eisenhower Administration and Cuba" (2021). Student Publications. 962.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/962
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Comments
Written for HIST 412: Eisenhower & his Times