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Cuba in the Cold War
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Batista fled Cuba.
Castro's group took control of the nation. -
President Kennedy inaugurated
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
The CIA made a plan to support an invasion of Cuba. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
This was a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade cuba. -
East German Gov surrounded West Berlin
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.
Neither the US or USSR knew what the other was going to do. The US took a vote. -
Cuban Missile Crisis begins
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.
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.
