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In the summer of 1953 Castro teamed up with Batista’s coup to invade Cuba, it failed. He was caught and put in jail.
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Castro was relaesed from jail and sent to Mexico.
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Castro returned to Cuba in 1956, and in December of 1956 he attempted to invade, it failed.
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The United States stopped selling arms to Batista.
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The Basita fled Cuba. Castro and his group took control.
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The CIA trained people that disliked Castro for an assult against him.
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All political and ecoomic relations ended between the U.S. and Cuba.
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1,400 Cuban refugees landed at the swampy Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s southern coast. A Cuban force of 20,000 easily overwhelmed the invaders, capturing about 1,100 men and imprisoning them.The U.S. government exchanged a ransom of $53 million in medicine and food for the relaese of the prisioners
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Soviet Union ships came in to Cuba more often than usual. We suspected it was arms, we were right.
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A U-2 airplane took pictures of missile launcing sites.
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The administration knew with certainty that Cuba had the missiles and the launching capacity to attack the United States.
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President Roosevelt has announced that the U.S. will have a blockade surronding Cuba.
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The Soviet Union agreed to stop sending missiles to Cuba and to return the missiles already in Cuba to the Soviet Union. In addition, they agreed to dismantle the launching sites. In return, Kennedy promised that the United States would not invade Cuba and also secretly agreed to remove U.S. nuclear-armed missiles from Turkey. These missiles could have been used to attack the Soviet Union.
