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Fidel Castro
When Fidel Castro turn Cuba into a communist and attempting his own revolution. -
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Cuba in the Cold War (josephine Perry)
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Casro's First attempt
Castro’s first revolution attempt, in the summer of 1953, failed, and he was put in jail. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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Bay Of Pigs
A Cuban force of 20,000 easily overwhelmed the invaders, capturing about 1,100 men and imprisoning them. Eventually, the U.S. government secured the release of these prisoners by paying a ransom of $53 million in medicine and food. The Bay of Pigs caused relations between Cuba and the United States to become even more hostile. It also hurt the reputations of the United States and the Kennedy administration. -
Bay Of Pigs
The failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion had embarrassed the United States and strengthened Castro’s power. The U.S. government continued to watch Cuba closely. This included using top-secret U-2 spy planes to illegally fly over and photograph the island. -
Conflict in Berlin
They built a wall to keep East German government surrounded West Berlin with a barbed-wire barrier at night time on August 12-13 1961. If you tried to escape there would be armed graud with guns. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
intelligence reports noted a dramatic increase in the cooperation between Cuba and the Soviet Union.
On October 15, 1962 Cuba had the missile and the launching capacity to attack the United States. Kennedy and his advisers considered several possible responses such as diplomacy, covert sabotage, a blockade, limited air strikes, or a full-scale invasion. -
Kennedy speech
Summer of 1963 Kennedy visted West Berlin to show his commitment to preserving freedom there. His speech talked about how people don't understand or say they don't, what is the great issue bewteen free world and the Communist world. to tell them to come to berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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The end of Cuban Missile Crisis
The end of the war happen on october 28 when a settlement was reached. The agreement was that Khrushche would stop sending cuba Missile Crisis and the ones that had been gaved to them would be sent to the Soviet Union. The Untied States agreement was that they would not invade cuba. They also agree remove U.S. nuclear-armed missiles from Turkey. That could have been used to attack Soviet Union. -
kennedy
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Kennedy giving a speech during the Cold War
