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Belif that doviet union was attempting to spread communism world wide
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aceused of giving the secerts of the atomic bomb found guilty haclear air dilrl
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For childern in schools that did not know what to do
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Castro claimed that he wanted to establish a regime that promoted political liberties and moderate reforms. Castro’s first revolution attempt, in the summer of 1953, failed, and he was put in jail.
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December 1956, in an invasion that they hoped would lead to a swift victory. The invasion failed, but the survivors hid in the mountains of Cuba and launched both a publicity campaign and guerrilla warfare operations.
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As a result, by the early 1960s, many Americans were living in fear of a nuclear attack. The Cuban Missile Crisis intensified these fears. Would missiles from Cuba land on U.S. shores at any minute?
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Beginning in March 1960, the CIA trained people who opposed Castro for the assault. The entire operation was to be highly secret, but the secret was poorly kept. Stories about it appeared in Cuban newspapers.
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On April 17, 1961, the CIA-backed force of 1,400 Cuban refugees landed at the swampy Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s southern coast. A Cuban force of 20,000 easily overwhelmed the invaders, capturing about 1,100 men and imprisoning them.
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In 1962, intelligence reports noted a dramatic increase in the cooperation between Cuba and the Soviet Union. Shipments of cargo from the Soviet Union to Cuba increased dramatically through the year, from an average of 14 per month to 28 per month in August and then to 46 per month in September. The CIA suspected these shipments included weapons.
