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Duck and Cover
The US creates a video that describes to schoolchildren how to protect yourself against nuclear missles -
Castro's Revolution
Fidel Castro and 800 of his men try to make Cuba a communist country by starting a revolution and taking office -
JFK is elected president
John F. Kennedy is elected as president of the United States to represent the US in the Cold War -
Bay of Pigs
The CIA developed a plan to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro by sending in Cuban refugees -
The Iron Curtain
The Soviets build a wall that separates East and West Berlin and the communists and the democrats that eventually falls in 1989 -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Soviet Union and Cuba threaten to drop bombs on the United States for thirteen days -
The US takes its defenses
President Kennedy demands Khrushchev to disarm the missles and creats a blockade to prevent trading between Cuba and the Soviet Union -
THe Cold War ends
The Cold War ends when the Berlin Wall is tore down and lets the people of Berlin choose where they want to live
