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Cuba in the Cold war
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New ruler
Fidel Castro assumes power after the Cuban Revolution -
Bay of pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos was a failed military invasion of Cuba -
Missile installations
Senator Kenneth keating tells the senate that there is evidence of soviet misslie installations in cuba -
Cuban missile Crisis
It was when the US discovered that the Soviet Union was deploying nuclear missiles in Cuba and it lasted 38 days and it was close becoming an actual nuclear confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union -
New law
John F. Kennedy signs a law into effect stating that the military is authorized to board any Soviet ships en route to Cuba. In Cuba, Castro appears on television to inspire the Cuban people to fight for their country -
USSR proposes to US to sign
The USSR proposes to the United States that they will remove weapons from Cuba if the Americans sign a guarantee to not invade Cuba in the future. -
American piot shot down
An american U-2 is shot down over cuba killing the pilot ,Major Rudolf Anderson -
Cuban Missle Crisis Ends
Kruschchev announces over radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from cuba in return the US agrees to the withdrawal of the US nuclear missiles from turkey ending the Cuban Missile Crisis
