5. Why is the United States so concerned about Cuba and communism taking hold in this country?

ust six days after the fall of the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba, U.S. officials recognize the new provisional government of the island nation. Despite fears that Fidel Castro, whose rebel army helped to overthrow Batista, might have communist leanings, the U.S. government believed that it could work with the new regime and protect American interests in Cuba.

Explanation:

the nationalists wanted a strong central government so the new country wouldn't fall apart.

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d: their own individual powers within the new goverment