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Cuban Government and the US Cooperate
Cuban goverment was headed by General Fulgencio Batista. Batista was a military dictator with a reputation for corruption and harsh treatment of his enemies. Cuban goverment was headed by General Fulgencio Batista. Batista was a military dictator with a reputation for corruption and harsh treatment of his enemies. -
Leader Of The Orthodox Party Commits Suicide
Eduardo Chibás, leader of the Ortodoxo party and mentor of Fidel Castro, commits suicide on live radio! -
Batista Fled
Batista fled cuba and castro took cuba back over -
Cia
The Cia devolps a plan to take over castro -
Bay Of Pigs
On April 17, 1961, about 1400 Cuban refugees landed on Cuba's southern coast. The Cubans had a force of about 20,000 people which caused the invasion to fail and the imprisonment of about 1100 of the invaders. -
End of Cuban missle crisis
President Kennedy sends a letter to Castro -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
They Reached A Settlement
Khrushchev agreed to stop sending missiles to Cuba. Khrushchev agreed to send the missiles already in Cuba to the Soviet Union. Kennedy promised that the US would not invade Cuba.
