Cuba, located 90miles of the coast of Florida had overthrown Batista in the revolution of 1958 and replaced him with the popular Fidel Castro. Castro's slogans of freedom and national pride sounded like communism in America, and immediately caused for alarm. Castro's creative idea for the small nation to turn its major crop plantations into sugar cane was great, except for the fact that he forget to get somebody to actually agree to buy it once it was sold. He assumed that America would, however, he assumed wrong, because the American sweet tooth at the time did not want dealings with Cuba. Cuba turned to the Soviet Union in a desperate bid to stop its nation from diving into bankruptcy. The Soviet was only too happy to obliged, on the condition that they were allowed to set up missile bases there, as they were feeling very insecure about the...