The History Of The Embargo

After it became officially globally acknowledged that Cuba was in fact a communist state and was being led through a dictatorship run by Castro, it did not take long before powerful enemies and essential allies were formed. The act of seizing all foreign land with none or very little compensation was received with great hostility amongst those who lost in their property through this process, and probably the reaction that had the biggest impact on Cuba’s economy was that of the US. Castro’s communistic policies did not of course help calm this resentment and also took part in leading to the establishment of trade embargos with Cuba from the US. This meant that Cuba would now lose a very valuable buyer of their precious sugar, [5] but they did however gain another one, a powerful nation that shared quite similar Marxist ideals and were quick to form an alliance with the Cubans, the USSR.

Another reason forimplementing the embargo on Cuba concerns the corrupt communist government andUS hopes of promoting a transition to a democratic system. On February 3, 1962,President Kennedy was confident that “Castro was moving toward theestablishment of a to! talitarian regime in alliance with the Soviet Union”(DeVarona 7). This raised a huge national defense issue since Cuba is only 90miles from US soil. The US government claims that the transition from communismto democracy will help Cuba flourish, as other democratic countries in thewestern hemisphere have. (“Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of1996”).

across 6 states, allowing the nation to be tied together and to be utilized for internal commerce. Later in Jefferson’s term he set a law that potentially was one of the worst notions during his presidency. In 1807 the Embargo Act was placed with the purpose of attempting to prevent foreign tension with France and Britain by not allowing American ships to any foreign ports and eliminated international trade. “The embargo, however, backfired and brought greater economic hardship to the United States than Britain” (Newman and Schmalbach. 136). While Jefferson’s attempt to preserve the economy failed once he passed the Embargo Act, he later at least recognized his doings during his presidency that it must be repealed. The embargo eventually got repealed in 1809, during James Madison’s term.

With the Impressment, the USS Chesapeake incident, and the Embargo Act, these events were causes that kept leading up to the war of 1812. There were many events and situations after the Revolutionary War involving the British, so many Americans came to conclude that going into another war against Britain might not be a terrible idea. With the Impressment, the British were capturing men and forcing them into naval service. The USS Chesapeake incident was because of the British ship Leopard stopping the Is Navy ship and trying to take all there sailors and the British started open firing when the captain wouldn't let them. During the continuance of the Embargo Act, all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States confined to the navigation of bays, sounds, rivers, and lakes. According to all of these documents it states that the British were involved negatively in all of them against the Americans.

It was a beautiful sunday morning on December 7th everything was calm and quiet for now. After world war one the Japan was already with Germany. And the United States were just were trying to stay isolated from the rest of the war. America would help would help by giving some of the countries supplies. But when Japan invaded China the United States stepped in and sent troops to help China. And at that time the navy moved to Hawaii. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor mainly because of the embargo act, the fear of U.S navy expansion and the Japanese themselves expanding.

Thomas Jefferson, our beloved third president of the United States, has recently put a government order and federal law into place. Said to be named the Embargo Act of 1807, news of its placement has spread rapidly across the nation. Officially set into law on December 21, 1807, this act has, and will continue to be the subject of uproar in Jefferson's presidency. Embargo, meaning a government order that forbids all foreign trade, defines that under this act no American citizen is to export or import goods to foreign countries, or take part in trading with them. This law has been drafted for the sole purpose of avoiding war with Britain or France. Many shall ask why the need to avoid war in the first place? The quotient of the division lies between a longtime ally, the French, and the former persisting parent country to the states, Britain.

Castro was not even aware of his impact on the people. In an interview with American journalist Liza Howard on April 30th 1963, Castro had given Liza “the impression that he was not completely aware of the extent to which terror had gripped Cuba” (United States. Central Intelligence Agency). The next strategy was to attack Cuba and Castro commercially, economically, and financially. Eisenhower administered the first trade embargo on Cuba on October 19th 1960. After working with the policy committees of US to Cuba, the White House had composed a document stating the regulations. This embargo covered all U.S. exports of good, but not medicines and certain foods. The States thought that creating this law against exporting would be taken as a form of more peaceful protest, to gain back the trading, Castro will need to step down from power. (United States. Presidential Directive). Castro also tried to restrict trading too, to get back at the U.S. to show that this was not a one way street. He created the Platt Amendment to stop Cuban sugar from being imported to the United States. In 1993 the US cracks down on Cuba intensifying the embargo in hopes of the economy failing. This soon forced Cuba into an agreement of allowing a certain amount of citizens to immigrate to either country per year. When Cuba shot down two U.S.

One year and a half after Castro’s forces took power in Cuba, President Eisenhower first imposed an embargo on Cuba, with the

The Cuba Policy came into effect to end all relations between the United States and Cuba. The U.S. policy toward Cuba is controlled by the embargo, which contains economic agreements and restrictions on travel to Cuba. The effect of this policy is to minimize commercial, political and resident relations between the United States and Cuba. The State Department indicated that the purpose of the embargo was to have a nonviolent transition to a secure, democratic form of government and respect for human rights in Cuba.

1 year ago in 1809, the Embargo Act was repealed, 3 days before Jefferson left office. Jefferson looked forward to retirement "Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.'' As Jefferson had failed to obtain and make the Embargo Act an act to help our nation, liked the idea of not being in office anymore. Congress replaced embargo with the Non-Intercourse Act. This reopened trade with all nations except Britain and France. Now in 1810, Congress has replaced the Non-Intercourse Act with Macon's Bill No. 2.Trade with France and Britain has been opened again. However, "if either Britain or France agreed to respect America's neutral rights, the United States would immediately

The United States embargo of Cuba has its roots planted in 1960, 53 years ago, when “the United States Congress authorized President Eisenhower to cut off the yearly quota of sugar to be imported from Cuba under the Sugar act of 1948… by 95 percent” (Hass 1998, 37). This was done in response to a growing

The Cuban Embargo, also known as “el bloqueo” to Cuban citizens, was declared by the United States in 1960 to eliminate imports of Cuban

Cuba was taken over by a communist ruler, Fidel Castro, in January of 1959 (Document D). The Soviet Union started sending over numerous troops, missiles, and nuclear weapons to station in Cuba (Document D). The US knew that they had to contain the communism in Cuba and so they placed a quarantine on it preventing ships to carry offensive weapons to Cuba (Document D). In the end, the Soviets were stopped by the quarantine and started to remove their missiles from Cuba (Document D). The US used their policy of containment by supporting Cuba at the beginning to keep communism from entering it(though it did fail), by placing a quarantine on Cuba, keeping the communism contained in Cuba, and stopping the Soviets from attacking the

Cuba and the Affects of the Embargo The island nation of Cuba, located just ninety miles off the coast of Florida, is home to 11 million people and has one of the few remaining communist regimes in the world. Cuba’s leader, Fidel Castro, came to power in 1959 and immediately instituted a communist program of sweeping economic and social changes. Castro allied his government with the Soviet Union and seized and nationalized billions of dollars of American property. U.S. relations with Cuba have been strained ever since. A trade embargo against Cuba that was imposed in 1960 is still in place today. Despite severe economic suffering and increasing isolation from the world community, Castro remains committed to communism. (Close Up

     It was after Castro took power that the United States changed its way in which it dealt with Cuba dramatically. The United States decided it would