Cuba

cuba in the cold war

  • duck and cover

    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
    General Fulgencio Batista had used a coup d’état to Gain power over the country of Cuba.
  • jullius and ethal

    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

    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

    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

    bay of pigs invasion
    intented to over throw the revolutionary left wing goverment of fidel castro.
  • cuban missle crisis

    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

    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