The period of the Cuban Revolution brought about a lot of turmoil for Cuba and other countries around the world. In 1945, shortly after the end of World War II, the Cold War was beginning between the United States and the Soviet Union.1 Cuba was in the midst of its own war, the revolution, when it found itself embroiled in the international politics of the War Cold. The interaction between international and domestic politics played an important role in the outcome of the revolution. The result of the revolution left Fidel Castro in charge of Cuba. The Platt Amendment states that the United States has the ability to interfere at various 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 expanding its economy by any major means. In 1933, Flugencio Batista organized a coup, so the United States did not intervene to stop and actually encouraged the coup. Problems arose when Batista had questionable intentions and purposes in discarding the 1940 Constitution.3 The problem for the United States was that if the 1940 Constitution was discarded, its rights and the guarantees of the Platt Amendment would no longer matter. However, the United States' failure to intervene allowed Fidel Castro to take power in 1958.4 This was a downfall for Batista because without the Platt Amendment, Eisenhower would not have prevented Fidel Castro from taking power over Cuba. Fidel Castro against the Batista government, in addition to overthrowing it, 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 rebel. ... half of the document ... We will have respect for property and we will have rights and freedoms for all Cubans. In Marifeli Pérez-Stable's book The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy, she traces the Cuban revolution through 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 politics during the early Cold War period greatly influenced the outcome of the Cuban Revolution. Without the actions taken by foreign powers such as the United States and Russia, some events on the domestic front could have had very different outcomes. It is important to understand how each nation's foreign policy can influence more than another nation, and this is especially true of Cuba. It was because of these events that the communist Cuba we know today was born.