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By: Lydia Ruffin
4-10-14
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General Fulgencio Batista took over the Cuban government in a coup.
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Batista fled from Cuba and so Castro and his group took control over the nation.
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The U.S. trained people who opposed Castro of the assualt. This was supposed to be kept a secret but was kept poorly and ended up in Cuba's newspaper.
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All the political and economic relations between the United States and Cuba ended.
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The U.S. of 1,400 Cuban refugees that landed on Cuba's southern coast, Bay of Pigs. A Cuban force of 20,000 overwhelmed the U.S. invaders and captured 1,100 men. Those 1,100 men where then imprisoned.
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Castro and his group returned to Cuba and invaded it to try to revolutionize it.
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The U.S. and the Soviet Union almost got in a war. The reason why is because the Soviet Union installed nuclear-armed missiiles in Cuba. In which the missiles were easily able to hit any eastern part of the U.S. And so President Kennedy ordered a naval blockade for Cuba to prevent the Soviets missiles to reach Cuba.
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President Kennedy gave a formal demand that the missiles in Cuba be removed. And gave a televisioned speech that the U.S. had evidence of the missiles in Cuba.
