International Relations
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- Cuba and the missile crisis
- Castro overthrows Batista, 1959
- Bay of Pigs invasion fails, 1961
- Castro announces he is communist, nationalises US businesses, and accepts Soviet weapons (1961)
- The missile crisis, October 1962
- 14 October, US spy plane spots missile sites
- 22 October, US naval blockade set up
- 24 October, Soviet ships turn back
- 28 October, Krushchev agrees to dismantle missile sites
- Consequences of the crisis
- 'hot line' set up
- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed (1963)
- Krushchev overthrown (1964)
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