Cuba in the Cold War Zachary Coble core 2 4/11/14

By zcoble
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    Cold War

  • Fulgencio Batista overthrown

    Fulgencio Batista overthrown

    Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista overthrown by Castro and other revolutionaries.
  • Khrushchev visits United States and denied access to Disneyland

    Khrushchev visits United States and denied access to Disneyland

    Khrushchev visits United States for the first time, he tries to go to Disney land but he is denided access.
  • Spy Plane Shot Down

    Spy Plane Shot Down

    Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory.
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  • Operation Mongoose

    Operation Mongoose

    Operation Mongoose was a covert operation against Cuba managed by counterinsurgency expert Edwin Lansdale, is initiated.

  • Operation Northwoods presented to SecDef McNamara

    Northwoods contemplated faked and actual terrorist incidents which could be blamed on Castro, and used as a pretext for an invasion of Cuba.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    After the US had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey and Italy, aimed at Moscow, and the failed US attempt to overthrow the Cuban regime, in May 1962 Nikita Khrushchev proposed the idea of placing Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter any future invasion attempt.
  • Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt

    Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt

    Czechoslovakians revolted to Soviet troops in their country.

  • Border clashes between the Soviet Union and China

    The Sino-Soviet border conflict was a seven-month undeclared military conflict between the Soviet Union and China.