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The United States government made videos and posters so the public would become aware of the dangerous Nuclear War. The resources promoted methods for surviving an attack. The methods included people biuld fall out shelters, and school cchildren to get under thier desk and cover their heads and necks under a neclear attack.
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Fidel Castro had been released from Jail and sent to Mexica where he gathered 80 followers and returned to Cuba for an invasion they hoped would make a fast victory, but it failed. The survivors hid in the mountains and launched Guerrilla Warfare
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After Batista fled Cuba, and Castro’s communist group took control of the nation. Castro created a provisional government, he replaced Cuba's economy with a communist-style economy. He nationizeled all foriengn owned businness and brought them to Cuba then made private businesses under his command.
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Beginning in March of 1960 the CIA started to train people who opposed Castro, for the invasio of Cuba.This invasion was kept a secret, but many Cuban newspapers wrote about it.
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CIA backed force of 1,400 Cuban refugees landed at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba's southern coast. The Cuban force of 20,000 captured 1,100 mn and puting them in prison. The U.S government secured a release by paying a 53 milllion dollar ransom in food and medicine.
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A poll showed that one fifth of the American population thought a World War III was coming soon.
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This was the start of the Cuban Missle Crisis. Cuba had been improving is airways and shipments from the Soviet Union had been dramatically increasing from average f 14 per month to 46 shipments pr month in September. They also improved missile launching sites and brought in Polish, Russian, Czech, and Chinese troops to take charge of artillery.
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A settlement is reached that the Soviets or otherwise known as Reds will take all missiles out of Cuba and stop the transportation of the missiles to Cuba. Khrushchev agreed to dismantle the missle launching sites.The U.S agreed to take the missles ut of Turkey.
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The United States and Soviet Union signed a Hotline Agreement that allowed a direct telegraph line to be set up. This allowed the two countires to communicate quicker.
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Representatives from the Soviet Union, United States and over 100 more countries signed a treaty that banned the testing of nuclear weapons, except underground.
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President Kennedy gave a televised speech that announed that he was imposing a blockade on all offensive military equipment.
