Cuba Timeline

By alexisgreene14
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    Cuba During the Cold War

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces.
    (the Korean War ends July 27, 1953)

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Iranian government.

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan governmen Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    Warsaw Pact formed.
    First Summit Meeting between President Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    Soviets launch first man‑made satellite.

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba, installs Communist government.

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
    East Germany builds Berlin Wall.

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    Sino‑Soviet Conflict begins. Cuban Missile Crisis.

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    China explodes its first atomic bomb

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    U.S. sends troops to the Dominican Republic.
    U.S. commits combat troops to South Vietnam.

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising

  • Cuba Missile Crisis

    President Richard Nixon ordered US troops to go to Cambodia.