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cuba in the cold war
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violent overthrow
a coup d'etat, is a sudden, violent overthrow of the goverment. batista's coup occurred just before scheduled election -
castro takes a nation
batista field cuba, castro's group of followers took the natoin -
kennedy decision
when john kennedy was elected president in 1960, he was presented wuth a deisiion, under the eisenhower administration, the cia had developed a plan to support an invasion of cuba with a group of cuba refugees -
the bay of pigs
cia- backed force of 1,400 cuban refugees lnaded in the swampy bay of pigs on cubas southern coast. a cuban force of 20,000 easily took the invaders down. capturing 1,100 man and imprisoned them until we payed a ransom of 53 million dollars in medicne and food -
kennedy's forma demand
president kennedy issued a formal demand to soviet premier nikita khrushchev that the missles be removed from cuba -
cuban missile crisis
the adminstration knew with ceranity that cuba had the missles and the launching capacity to attack the united states -
a settlement was reached
Khrushchev agreed to stop sending missiles to cuba and to return all the missiles back to the soviet union -
revolution threat
a revolution threatend to overthrow the goverment of the dominican republic. the u.s. goverment feared that this revolution would result in a comminism take over
