Cuba and Cuban Missile Crisis
- Created by: Maria Jodiyawalla
- Created on: 27-02-14 20:59
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- Cuba
- The Cuban Missile Crisis - 13 Days Oct 1962
- U2 spy plane
- Shot down
- Kennedy did nothing
- Shot down
- Naval Blockade
- Soviet ships
- stopped + searched
- Prevented missile-Cuba
- Kennedy warns K who ignores
- But K avoids conflict at Quarantine Line
- Soviet ships
- Krushchevs' Letters 26th/27th
- K admits presence of missiles
- K Actually attempts to prevent war
- U2 spy plane
- US+Cuba 50s Pre- B of P
- Helped gain independence from Spain
- Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay
- Cuban Revolution
- Trade Embargo (trade stop)
- 1960-stopped buying sugar from Cuba
- 1961-Broke all relations
- Cuba only 100 miles away
- April 1961 Bay of Pigs
- Led by Kennedy
- Failed to provide air support
- Rebels easily defeated
- CIA trained exiles/rebels
- Cuba closer to USSR asked for military support
- Failure for US
- Key People
- USA
- Eisenhower
- Kennedy
- Eisenhower
- USSR
- Khrushchev
- Cuba
- Batista - 50s
- Castro - 60s
- Batista - 50s
- USA
- The Cuban Missile Crisis - 13 Days Oct 1962
- 1960-stopped buying sugar from Cuba
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