Cuba from 1950-1970: Bay of Pig and Cuban Missile Crisis

By Logan_M178
  • In Cuba in 1950

    In Cuba in 1950

    Eduardo Chibás, leader of the Ortodoxo party and mentor of Fidel Castro commits suicide on live radio.
  • In Cuba

    In Cuba

    Former president Batista, supported by the army, seizes power.
  • In Cuba

    In Cuba

    Some 160 revolutionaries under the command of Fidel Castro launch an attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Communists at meeting in Santiago arrested, Fabio Grobart said to have attended, but not listed in arrest records,
  • In Cuba

    In Cuba

    Che Guevara arrives in Mexico City.
  • In Cuba

    In Cuba

    the freighter La Coubre a 4,310-ton French vessel carrying 76 tons of Belgian munitions explodes while it began unloading in Havana harbor.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    Failed invasion of Cuba by CIA trained Cuban rebels in April, 1961- embarrassment to JFK administration
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    13 days in 1962 in which the U.S., Cuba, & the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war over the installment of missile sites in Cuba by the Soviets- Soviets withdrew sites
  • Nikita Khrushchev

    Nikita Khrushchev

    Communist leader of Soviet Union during the Cold War from 1963
  • In Cuba

    In Cuba

    Cuba becomes a member of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON).