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Cuba, Cyprus, and the Russians Reach the Moon
In 1959 Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba. His relations with the USSR would bring the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of war, during the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis.
The space race continued with the Soviet Union landing a unmanned module on the moon. The Americans put aside millions of dollars for their space project.
In London the civil war in Cyprus was ending at the negotiation table. The Republic of Cyprus was formed and there would be a Greek president and a Turkish vice-president.
Macmillan's Conservatives won the General Election and forecast a stronger economy with the confirmation that oil was winnable from beneath the North Sea. It was during 1959, that arrangements were made for an alternative to membership of the EEC. It was called EFTA, the European Freed Trade Association and would come into being the following year (1960).
EEC members saw this as a direct threat to European commercial and political harmony.
Fidel Castro |
FIDEL CASTRO (b 1927)- Son of a Cuban sugar planter
- Became a lawyer and studied in America where he nearly had a career as a professional baseball player
- Sentenced to 15 years imprisonment with his brother Raul in 1953 for organising an uprising against President Batista
- Released under an amnesty and escaped to the USA and then to Mexico
- Returned to Cuba in 1956 to begin guerilla warfare.
- Toppled Batista in 1958
- Became leader of Cuba in 1959.
- Introduced agricultural, industrial and educational reforms
The Mini and the Rolls Royce Phantom V went on sale in 1959. The Mini cost just over 拢500, the Phantom V 拢8,905.
 
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| 1955 | Eden succeeds Churchill as Tory Prime Minister
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| 1956 | Suez Crisis
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| 1957 | Macmillan succeeds Eden
The Treaty of Rome
Life Peerages Act is passed
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| 1959 | Oil is discovered in the North Sea
The Vietnam War begins
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| 1960 | EFTA established
Cyprus and Nigeria become independent
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| 1961 | South Africa leaves the Commonwealth
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| 1962 | The National Economic Development Council is formed
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| 1963 | The Profumo Affair
Macmillan resigns as PM due to ill-health
The Earl of Home renounces his peerage and as Sir Alec Douglas-Home becomes Prime Minister
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| 1964 | General Election and Harold Wilson becomes Labour Prime Minister
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| Founding Members Of The European Free Trade Association | | • | Austria |
| • | Denmark |
| • | Norway |
| • | Portugal |
| • | Sweden |
| • | Switzerland |
| • | The United Kingdom |
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