A kasar Cuba, ranar 26 ga watan Yuli, karkashin jagorancin matasan juyin juya hali Fidel Castro da Che Guevara, sun kwace mulki a juyin juya halin Cuban a ranar 1 ga watan Janairun 1959, inda suka hambarar da shugaba Fulgencio Batista, wanda gwamnatin Eisenhower ta hana gwamnatinsa rashin amincewa da makamai.Duk da cewa Fidel Castro na farko ya ki ware sabuwar gwamnatinsa a matsayin mai ra'ayin gurguzu kuma ya sha musanta kasancewarsa dan gurguzu, Castro ya nada 'yan Markisanci a manyan mukaman gwamnati da na soja.Mafi mahimmanci, Che Guevara ya zama gwamnan babban bankin kasa sannan kuma ministan masana'antu.Dangantakar diflomasiyya tsakanin Cuba da Amurka ta ci gaba na wani dan lokaci bayan faduwar Batista, amma da gangan shugaba Eisenhower ya bar babban birnin kasar don kaucewa ganawa da Castro a ziyarar da shugaban ya kai birnin Washington DC a watan Afrilu, inda mataimakin shugaban kasar Richard Nixon ya gudanar da taron a madadinsa. .Cuba ta fara yin shawarwarin siyan makamai daga yankin Gabas a watan Maris na 1960. A watan Maris na wannan shekarar Eisenhower ya ba da izini ga tsare-tsaren CIA da kudade don hambarar da Castro.A cikin Janairu 1961, kafin ya bar ofis, Eisenhower ya yanke dangantaka da gwamnatin Cuba a hukumance.A waccan Afrilu, gwamnatin sabon zababben shugaban Amurka John F. Kennedy, ya hau kan tsibirin Playa Giron da Playa Larga da ke lardin Santa Clara, wanda bai yi nasara ba da CIA ta shirya.Castro ya mayar da martani ta hanyar rungumar Marxism-Leninism a bainar jama'a, kuma Tarayyar Soviet ta yi alkawarin ba da ƙarin tallafi.A cikin watan Disamba ne dai gwamnatin Amurka ta fara kaddamar da hare-haren ta'addanci kan al'ummar kasar Cuba da kuma ayyukan boye-boye da zagon kasa ga gwamnatin kasar, a yunkurin kifar da gwamnatin Cuba.