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Cuban goverment was headed by General Fulgencio Batista. Batista was a military dictator with a reputation for corruption and harsh treatment of his enemies. Cuban goverment was headed by General Fulgencio Batista. Batista was a military dictator with a reputation for corruption and harsh treatment of his enemies.
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Eduardo Chibás, leader of the Ortodoxo party and mentor of Fidel Castro, commits suicide on live radio!
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Batista fled cuba and castro took cuba back over
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The Cia devolps a plan to take over castro
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On April 17, 1961, about 1400 Cuban refugees landed on Cuba's southern coast. The Cubans had a force of about 20,000 people which caused the invasion to fail and the imprisonment of about 1100 of the invaders.
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President Kennedy sends a letter to Castro
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
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Khrushchev agreed to stop sending missiles to Cuba. Khrushchev agreed to send the missiles already in Cuba to the Soviet Union. Kennedy promised that the US would not invade Cuba.
