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duck and cover
duck and cover is an expression used back in the 1950s as a nuclear raid drill -
General Fulgencio Batista
General Fulgencio Batista had used a coup d’état to Gain power over the country of Cuba. -
jullius and ethal
ulius and Ethel were accused of giving the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Russians, found guilty ('51) and then electrocuted. ('53) -
president foregin policies
since president Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 2nd term was ending the cold war was still going on and then president John F Kennedy was elected and took on war in a very different way then previous presidents have. A plan involving Cubans who fled Cuba and wanted to overthrow Castro to make life better. -
the 2nd red scare
belief that the soviet union was attempting to spread communism world wide including in the united states. -
bay of pigs invasion
intented to over throw the revolutionary left wing goverment of fidel castro. -
cuban missle crisis
U.S spy planes flew over cuba to see what they were planing and what came out to be reveled a nuclear missiles and launching sites in cuba -
fall out shelters/ duck and cover
these where developed because of cuba and there little nuclear bomb missle. they us had to come up with a way of keeping the people safe wich was a bomb shelter and a lame thing called duck and cover which means when you here a siren where ever you are at duck and cover yourself
