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The leader of a Guerilla warfare army, Fidel Castro, overthrew the current govenment to create a new comunist Cuba. The new comunist state saught the support of the Soviet Union.
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Cuba openly aligns itself with the communist super power the Soviet Union
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A failed U.S. supported invasion with 1400 exiled cubans trying to overthrow Fidel Castro.
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American High altitude U-2 spy plane discovered a soviet SS-4 balistic missile bieng assembled in cuba.
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The US President anounces the nuclear missile sites that were bieng built in Cuba
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President JFK orders a naval bloackade of cuba to prevent nuclear warheads from entering Cuba.
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The ships that carry nuklear warheads to Cuba are forced to turn around back to the USSR.
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Khrushchev announces that he would dismantle the misssile siloes and return them to the soviet union, as long as the U.S. doesnt invade Cuba.
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In return for the Soviet Unions withdrawl of the nukes in Cuba, the US agreed to get rid of the US nukes in Turkey
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