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  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
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  Secind largest military garrison in Cuba. Even though it was a failure it was credited to Fulgencio Batista the cuban dictator.
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  By 1956, Castro had been released and sent to Mexico.
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  On January 1, 1959, Batista fled Cuba, and Castro’s group took control of the nation.
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  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.
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  A code signal name for the mission ot get rid of Castro of communisim in Cuba.
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  After winning a close election, Democrat John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the U.S. president in 1961.
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  A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.
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  13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side.