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Eduardo Chibas suicide over live radio Broadcast. He was the mentor of Fidel Castro and he was the leader of the Ortodoxo Party.
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Former president Batista seizes power. He is helped my the army.
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About 160 revolutionaries under fidel Castro attack the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
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Fidel Castro is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Bastita fled Cuba and Castro took over the nation.
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John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the U.S. president in 1961. Kennedy promised to fight the Cold War aggressively.
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A CIA force of 1,400 Cuban refugees landed at swampy Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s southern coast. With a Cuban force of 20,000, they easily overwhelmed the invaders, capturing about 1,100 men and imprisoning them.
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On October 23, 1961, a poll was taken that showed that one-fifth of Americans believed World War III was coming soon.
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It was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
