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Cuba in the Cold War
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The Korean War
This begins a 3year war when troops of North Korea backed with Soviet weaponry and invaded south Korea -
Bay of pigs invasion
1,400 Cuban Exiles launched what had later bacame a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south Coast of Cuba. -
Peace Corps
200,000 americans had helped 139 countries total -
Possible ww3
There was a poll that was taken and one-fifth of the american believed there was gonna be a ww3 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It all started when the Soviet Union had put Nuclear Missiles on the island of cuba, which nearly started a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union -
John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The North Vietnamese torpedoed the U.S. destroyer Maddox -
Martin Luther King was killed
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray
