The period of the Cuban Revolution was marked by much unrest for Cuba as well as other countries around the world. In 1945, shortly after the end of World War II, the Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union.1 Cuba was in the midst of its own war, revolution, when it was overtaken by international politics of the Soviet Union. the cold war. The interaction between international politics and domestic politics played a major role in the outcome of the revolution. The result of the revolution left Fidel Castro in control of Cuba. The Platt Amendment states that the United States has the capacity to intervene at different points in Cuba's history. This gave America the ability to better serve its own interests in the region, including sugar production.2 This prevented Cuba from growing its economy in any significant way. In 1933, Flugencio Batista staged a coup, which is why the United States did not intervene to stop and even encouraged the coup. Problems arose when Batista had questionable intentions and goals to eliminate the 1940 Constitution.3 The problem for the United States was that if the 1940 Constitution was rejected, its Platt Amendment rights and guarantees would no longer have of importance. However, the lack of intervention by the United States allowed Fidel Castro to take power in 1958.4 This was a downfall for Batista because without the Platt Amendment, Eisenhower would not resist Fidel Castro's takeover in Cuba. Fidel Castro's greatest transgression against Batista's government, besides his overthrow, was the attack on the Moncada barracks on July 26, 1953. 5 The plan was to attack the barracks and seize the weapons, which would then be distributed to the general public who would then revolt. ...... middle of paper ...... I would respect property and have rights and freedoms for all Cubans. In Marifeli Pérez-Stable's book The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Journey and Legacy, she looks back on the Cuban Revolution from a sociological point of view. Pérez-Stable states that Cubans had national independence and social justice as their goals.14 Castro's involvement in foreign and domestic policy during the early Cold War greatly influenced the outcome of the Cuban Revolution. Without the actions taken by foreign powers like the United States and Russia, some events on the home front could have had very different outcomes. It is important to understand how each country's foreign policy can influence more than just one other country, and this was especially true for Cuba. It was because of these events that the communist Cuba we know today was born...