Cuba in the Cold War - Brooke Bryant 4/9/14 SS4

Cuba in the Cold War

Period: Apr 9, 1950 to Apr 9, 1970

Batista fled Cuba.

Jan 1, 1959

Castro's group took control of the nation.

President Kennedy inaugurated

Jan 20, 1960

Kennedy promised to fight the Cold War. He relied more on conventional weapons. He didn't rely on nuclear weapoons. He was the 35th president of the US.

CIA trained people who opposed Castro for the assault

Mar 1, 1960

The CIA made a plan to support an invasion of Cuba.

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Apr 17, 1961

This was a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade cuba.

East German Gov surrounded West Berlin

Aug 12, 1961

East German government surrounded West Berlin with a barbed-wire barried during the night of August 12-13, 1961.

Poll showed that 1/5 of Americans believed that World War III was coming.

Oct 23, 1961

Neither the US or USSR knew what the other was going to do. The US took a vote.

Cuban Missile Crisis begins

Oct 14, 1962

The U.S. Navy sent submarines and warships to the Caribbean. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest thing to nuclear war between the US and Soviet Union.

A settlement was reached.

Oct 28, 1962

Khrushchev agreed to stop sending missiles to Cuba. Khrushchev agreed to send the missiles already in Cuba to the Soviet Union. Kennedy promised that the US would not invade Cuba.