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They viewed them as a source of trade free goods they were Nabel to obtain on their own.
<span>This was the Populist movement. This movement held that the farmer and worker needed to be on a more level footing with those in the business world. Their party platform consisted of such progressive ideals as the direct election of Senators and an increase in the currency put into circulation. William Jennings Bryan was one of the most popular and charismatic of the leaders of this party during the late 19th-century.</span>
In the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, tensions between the United States and Cuba rose to a fever pitch. Now aware of just how far the Kennedy Administration would go to depose him, Fidel Castro turned to the Soviet Union for assistance. In return, the Soviets began sneaking nuclear missiles into Cuba, which were pointed at the Cuban shores and Florida. In the case of a US invasion of the island, Castro was prepared not only to launch missiles at the US mainland, but also to nuke his own shores to cripple any invading forces. The stockpiling of missiles in Cuba led to the Cuban Missile Crisis between the US and the USSR. Despite the fact that Kennedy proclaimed he ended the crisis and had the missiles removed from Cuba, the Cuban military retained the missiles pointed at their shores just in case of a US invasion.
