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built usally underground- in the 1950's during thr fear of nuclear war
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Batista had taken over the cuban government in a coup
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Castro's first revolution attempt in the summer of 1953, failed and he was put in jail
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U.S stopped selling arms to Batista
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Batista fled cuba and catro's groups took control of the nation
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(1945-1960's) Belief that the soviet union was attemting to spread communism world wide
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failed invasion of cuba by CIA trained cuban rebels
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13 days in 1962 in which the us, cuba and the soviet unioon came to the brink of nuclear war over the installment of missile sites in cuba by the soviets- soviets withdraw sites
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The administation knew with certainty the cuba had the missiles and launching capacity to attack the US
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This is known as the october crisis. In cuba and the caribbean crisis in the former USSR.