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Cuba in the Cold War
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita was the person in the Soviet Union that threatened to bomb us. -
Moncada Assault
The Moncada Barracks was the second largest military garrison in Cuba. Although it was a failure it was credited to Fulgencio Batista the cuban dictator at the time. -
Fidel Casro makes Cuba Communist
Fidel Castro Changes Cuba to a communist contry which lead up to Fulgencio Batista being overtrown from the military dictatorship. -
President Kennedy was elected for President
Kennedy was running against Lyndon Johnson in the election. -
Operation Monegoose
This was the code name for the mission to get rid of Castro to get rid of communism in Cuba. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Bay of Pigs Invasion is when CIA trained a group of cuban refugees to destroy the communist goverment ran by Fidel Castro. Sadly the Attack attempt was and utter failure. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
This is the moment when the US and the Soviet Union became the closest to have a nuclear war. It was ery different because of all the different things that went on during this time like calclations and miscalculations and direct and covert communication. -
President Kennedy shot and killed
President Kennedy was riding in a car and was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald and then Oswald was shot by a civilian and killed.
