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Cold War
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Fulgencio Batista overthrown
Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista overthrown by Castro and other revolutionaries. -
Khrushchev visits United States and denied access to Disneyland
Khrushchev visits United States for the first time, he tries to go to Disney land but he is denided access. -
Spy Plane Shot Down
Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). -
Operation Mongoose
Operation Mongoose was a covert operation against Cuba managed by counterinsurgency expert Edwin Lansdale, is initiated. -
Operation Northwoods presented to SecDef McNamara
Northwoods contemplated faked and actual terrorist incidents which could be blamed on Castro, and used as a pretext for an invasion of Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
After the US had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey and Italy, aimed at Moscow, and the failed US attempt to overthrow the Cuban regime, in May 1962 Nikita Khrushchev proposed the idea of placing Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter any future invasion attempt. -
Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt
Czechoslovakians revolted to Soviet troops in their country. -
Border clashes between the Soviet Union and China
The Sino-Soviet border conflict was a seven-month undeclared military conflict between the Soviet Union and China.
