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Cuba and the US

Published on Mar 21, 2016

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Cuba and the US

What happened? What's happening now?
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Cold War

Ideological Conflict between two super powers 

Events

  • 1959 Fidel Castro led a revolt against the dictator Batista
  • 1960s Castro's economic policies were anti-US business
  • April 17, 1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion
  • February 7, 1962 - US Embargo
  • October 14-28, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis