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Cuba and cold war
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fallout shelters
built usally underground- in the 1950's during thr fear of nuclear war -
Batista
Batista had taken over the cuban government in a coup -
Castro's first revolutions
Castro's first revolution attempt in the summer of 1953, failed and he was put in jail -
Arms
U.S stopped selling arms to Batista -
batista fled
Batista fled cuba and catro's groups took control of the nation -
2nd Red Scare
(1945-1960's) Belief that the soviet union was attemting to spread communism world wide -
Bay of pigs
failed invasion of cuba by CIA trained cuban rebels -
13 days
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 -
Missiles
The administation knew with certainty the cuba had the missiles and launching capacity to attack the US -
cuban missil Crisis
This is known as the october crisis. In cuba and the caribbean crisis in the former USSR.
