Cuba in the Cold War

By zion p.c.

  • Batista took over the cuban gorvernment in 1952

  • Fidel Castro becames communist against Batista

  • Castro's first revolution attemp failed in the summer of 1953 and was put in jail

  • January 1, 1959 Batista fled Cuba, and Castro's group took control of the nation

  • JFK was elected president, CIA trained people who aposed Castro for an invasion of Cuba

  • CIA backed force of 1400 Cubans refugees landed at the swampy Bay of Pigs in the Southern coast of cuba

  • intellegence notes reported a dramatic increase in the cooperation in Cuba and the Soviet Union

  • President Kennedy issued a demand on Soviet Premeir Nikita that the missles be removed from Cuba