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Through the 1950s, the United States had cooperated with the Cuban government headed by General Fulgencio Batista.
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December 1956, in an invasion that they hoped would lead to a swift victory. The invasion failed, but the survivors hid in the mountains of Cuba and launched both a publicity campaign and guerrilla warfare operations.
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On January 1, 1959, Batista fled Cuba, and Castro’s group took control of the nation.
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failed invasion of Cuba by CIA trained Cuban Rebels in april 1961- embarrasment to JFK administration
Beginning in March 1960, the CIA trained people who opposed Castro for the assault. The entire operation was to be highly secret, but the secret was poorly kept. Stories about it appeared in Cuban newspapers. -
By 1961, all political and economic relations between the United States and Cuba had ended.
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On October 23, 1961, a poll showed that one-fifth of Americans believed World War III was coming soon.
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Concerns about Cuba and its close relations with the Soviet Union had led President Kennedy to try to overthrow the Cuban government. 13 days in 1962 in which the U.S., Cuba, and the soveit union come to the brink of nuclear war over the installment of missile sites in Cuba by the soviets- soviets withdrew sites
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On October 22, President Kennedy issued a formal demand to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev that the missiles be removed from Cuba. Kennedy gave a televised speech announcing that the United States had indisputable evidence of offensive missiles in Cuba. Kennedy also announced that he was imposing a blockade “on all offensive military equipment.”
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Finally, on October 28, a settlement was reached. Khrushchev agreed to stop sending missiles to Cuba and to return the missiles already in Cuba to the Soviet Union.
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In 1963, a direct telegraph line was built that allowed leaders from both countries to send messages to each other quickly. In the same year, the United States, the Soviet Union, and more than 100 other nations signed a treaty that banned the testing of nuclear weapons, except underground.
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In 1965, a revolution threatened to overthrow the government of the Dominican Republic. The U.S. government feared that this revolution would result in a communist takeover, as it had in nearby Cuba.
