Cuba In The Cold War Timeline

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  • Fallout Shelters

    Fallout Shelters
    These were built usually underground in the 1950s during the fear of nuclear war. People stayed in the fallout shelters for years.

  • HollyWood Blacklist

    HollyWood Blacklist
    Actors, Directors, producers, & etc. thought to be communist & prevented them from working there during the red scare.

  • "Duck & Cover"

    "Duck & Cover"
    This was an expression used for 1950s nuclear air raid drill.

  • Fidel Castro

    Fidel Castro
    President Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1952.

  • Julius & Ethel

    Julius & Ethel
    Julius & Ethel Rosenberg got executed on June 19, 1953. In 1951 they were found guilty of giving the secrets of the Atomic bomb to the Russians.

  • 2nd Red Scare

    2nd Red Scare
    A belief that the Soviet Union was attempting to spread communism world wide, including in the U.S.

  • Bay Of Pigs

    Bay Of Pigs
    Failed invasion of Cuba by CIA trained Cuban rebels in April 1961 embarrassment to JFK administration

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    13 days in 1962 in which the US, Cuba, and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war over the installment of the missile sites in Cuba by Soviets.