Cuba in Cold War

By Heather_Poythress

  • Duck and Cover

    Duck and Cover
    Duck and Cover is a personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion, which the United States government taught to generations of United States school children from the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s
  • Period: to

    Cold War

  • Moncada Assalt

    Moncada Assalt
    Secind largest military garrison in Cuba. Even though it was a failure it was credited to Fulgencio Batista the cuban dictator.

  • Castro

    Castro
    By 1956, Castro had been released and sent to Mexico.

  • Cuba & Castro

    Cuba & Castro
    On January 1, 1959, Batista fled Cuba, and Castro’s group took control of the nation.

  • Peace Corps

    Peace Corps
    The Peace Corps is a program that sends thousands of Americans to developing countries to support projects in fields such as education and public health.

  • Operation Mongoose

    Operation Mongoose
    A code signal name for the mission ot get rid of Castro of communisim in Cuba.

  • President

    President
    After winning a close election, Democrat John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the U.S. president in 1961.

  • Bay of pigs

    Bay of pigs
    A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.

  • Cuba missiles

    13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side.