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Cuba in The Cold War Nikolos Theocles 4-08-2014 SS2

By ntheocles
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    Cuba in The Cold War

  • World War Two Ends

    All the Axis powers have surrendered WWII is officialy over.

  • Castro's first revolution

    Castro starts a rebellion and loses and is put in prision

  • Castro launches a ship from Mexico to attack Cuba

    Castro launches a ship to try and take Cuba again.

  • Bastia flees from Cuba

    Bastia loses the fight against Castro and flees the country.

  • Kennedy created the Peace Corps

    President J.F. Kennedy created the Peace Corps to bring education and help to undeveloped countrys.

  • All trade and diplomatic relations between the USA and Cuba ceased

    Castro's communist control takes Cuba and the USA stops all relations with Cuba. AKA burning the bridge.

  • Bay Of Pigs

    The Bay Of Pigs was a 1,400 Cuban backed CIA invasion of Cuba but Castro's forces of 20,000 defeated them.

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    U-2 planes saw that there were Soviet missle bases on Cuba that could have nuclear weapons.

  • End of Missle Crisis

    The USSR removed the missles from Cuba nad the USA removed nuclear missles from Turkey.
  • Cuban Flag

    Cuban Flag

    The Cuban Flag during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Soviet Flag

    Soviet Flag

    The USSR Flag during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Submarine

    Submarine

    A submarine used in the blockade.
  • Battleship

    Battleship

    The type of battleship used ( they didnt really fire ).
  • Fidel Castro

    Fidel Castro

    A pic of Fidel Castro during the invasion.
  • SS-22 Soviet Nuclear Missle on transport

    SS-22 Soviet Nuclear Missle on transport

    This was the favored Soviet Missile possibly what they shipped.

  • USSR fallen

    The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.