“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a right” -Victor Hugo.People have different reasons for starting a revolution. However, the road to freedom is always filled with one thing, death. The Cuban Revolution was a civil war led by rebel Fidel Castro with the goal of ousting dictator Fulgencio Batista. While the American Revolution also had a very strong leader in George Washington and a similar goal of trying to gain control of the government, how they got there was very different. The Cuban and American revolutions had many distinct characteristics that made them successful. People in the United States and Cuba wanted a new system of government, but not necessarily for the same reasons. In Cuba, the dictator Batista was a cruel being who did not help the country. At the same time, Americans wanted reforms so they could be part of the government. Everyone in Cuba knew that Batista had to be stopped and eventually a rebel leader arose. While in America all the King Georges had to be stopped, but instead of just one leader, the entire nation rose to the occasion. Cuba frees itself from Batista's dictatorship, but instead of improving, life in Cuba gets worse. Cuba may not have been better off, but America was now prospering with their lives and government back under control. Americans and Cubans both sought a new government, but for contrasting reasons and with different results. Batista was a cruel dictator who refused to help the country's poor or the insufficient education system and ultimately that was why a revolution had to break out. take place. Fulgencio Batista liked to be in control and when he didn't have it he had cruel ways of dealing with it. He ordered the police to be brutal with citizens who often have...... middle of paper ......orgies III. However, the American definitely didn't get the short straw. There is really no comparison between the reasoning behind the American and Cuban Revolutions. The Cubans certainly fared worse. They were not helped, but also tortured by their so-called “leader”. Whereas in America they simply felt they were being taxed too much. For lack of better words, American reasoning, compared to others, was weak. Yet both revolutions still took place, and that's because people in America and Cuba thought they were really needed. This is the real reasoning behind a revolution, you might see, the need for a change. Change could happen anywhere, in a country, in a government, even in a classroom. This is why it is difficult to compare revolutions, because they all have their reason and, even if it may seem little to others, it is a sufficient reason to change.