Moncada2

Conflict of Cuba 1950-1970

By bks00

  • The first national bank of Cuba opens

    The first national bank of Cuba opens
    The National Bank of Cuba officially opens.

  • Shooting

    Shooting
    In Puerto Rico, shooting breaks out between members of the Nationalist Party and the police. The Nationalists are able to take the town Jayuya, but are crushed within a few days.

  • Eddy Chibas

    Eddy Chibas
    At the end of his popular radio show Eddy Chibás commits suicide.

  • Batista takes over

    Batista takes over
    Fulgencio Batista takes over (again) in a bloodless coup de etat. Elections, three months away, are canceled.

  • Fidel Castro and other veterans of the attack on the Moncada Army Barracks are released from prison in a general amnesty.

    Fidel Castro and other veterans of the attack on the Moncada Army Barracks are released from prison in a general amnesty.
    Fidel Castro and other veterans of the attack on the Moncada Army Barracks are released from prison in a general amnesty.

  • Rebels are attacked by the Army at Altos de Espinosa and disperse for three days.

    Rebels are attacked by the Army at Altos de Espinosa and disperse for three days.
    Rebels are attacked by the Army at Altos de Espinosa and disperse for three days.

  • U.S. native Alan Robert Nye is arrested

    U.S. native Alan Robert Nye is arrested
    U.S. native Alan Robert Nye is arrested by the Revolutionary Army in Baire, near Jiguany, and charged with a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.

  • Bay of pigs

    Bay of pigs
    Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.