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Cuba during the Cold War
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First meeting between President Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev
Was to try and improve relations between the Soviet Union and US. -
Fidel Castro becomes premier leader of Cuba
Castro made Cuba a communist country. The US was trying to stop communism. -
U-2 Incident
A US spy plane, that was carrying an atomic bomb, was shot down over the Soviet Union and made it extremely tough for any hopes for improvement of relations between the Soviet Union and US. -
Bay of Pigs
A failed invasion of Cuba by the United States. -
Cause of the Bay of Pigs
The main cause of the Bay of Pigs was to simply prevent communism anywhere near our country. -
Leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviets doubled their shipments per month to Cuba and the US was certain that those shipments contained weapons. -
Calling off the tension between Soviet Union and US
Tension was stopped by peaceful exchanging of messages between President Jonh Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev -
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 18-29. The world waited as the US and Soviet Union were on the brink of having nuclear warfare, hoping for a peaceful solution. -
Che Guevera
Che Guevera met his death in 1967. He was chief instrument of world revolution.
