Cuba in the Cold War

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    Cuba in the Cold War

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the CIA to train and arm a force of Cuban exiles for for an armed attack on Cuba.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Begins when a CIA-financed and trained group of Cuban refugees land in Cuba.
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    1,200 exiles, armed with American weapons and using American landing craft, plowed ashore
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    John F. Kennedy bcame president

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    A confrontaion between the Unites States and the Soviet Union
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    A U2 spyplane discovers discovers missiles in Cuba
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The U.S begins discussions about invading Cuba
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The 13 day confrontation ends