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Castro Takes Power
After a six-year long revolution President Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba and Fidel Castro assumes power after proclaiming victory in Santiago. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Cuba and Soviet Union
Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies -
The Bay of Pigs
"The Bay of Pigs" - A group of Cuban exiles, backed by the US, invades Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in a failed attempt to trigger an anti-Castro rebellion -
War Threat
September 11: Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, warns that an American attack on Cuba could mean war with the Soviet Union -
The missiles are seen
A U-2 flying over western Cuba obtains photographs of missile sites -
Photographic Evidence of Soviet missile Cuban installations
Congressional leaders are shown the photographic evidence of the Soviet missile Cuban installations and the President addresses the nation regarding the Cuban crisis -
The Soviets are coming
Soviet ships, en route to Cuba, reverse their course except for one. US Military forces go to DEFCON 2 -
MAN DOWN!
An American U-2 is shot down over Cuba killing the pilot, Major Rudolf Anderson -
Kennedy tries to make peace
Kennedy sends Khrushchev a letter stating that he will make a statement that the U.S. will not invade Cuba if Khrushchev removes the missiles from Cuba -
Soviets agree to leave
Khrushchev announces over Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba
