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After a six-year long revolution President Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba and Fidel Castro assumes power
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The United States ends its foreign aid program to Cuba.
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The United States stops the import of Cuban sugar, effectively cutting off 80 percent of Cuban exports to the United States.
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The U.S. plans to assassinate Fidel Castro by poisoning a box of Castro's favorite cigars.
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John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the thirty-fifth president of the United States.
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A failed invasion of Cuba at a place called the "Bay Of Pigs" which was planned by the CIA, which President JFK takes full responsibilty for.
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The 13 day time period during the cold war with Cuba and the Soviet Union on one side and the United States on the other, which almost turned the war into a nuclear conflict.
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The United States removes its nuclear missiles from Turkey.
