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Cuban Missile Crisis
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- 115th- US planes bomb part of the Cuban Airforce16th-Planned 2nd wave of bombs cancelled.
The remenants of the Cuban Airforce were able to regroup and fight the next day. - 2USSR placed missiles in Cuba after Castro announced the conversion to Communism built missile silo It was a crisis which JFK didnt know what to do- a deal was made
USSR agrred to remove missiles from Cuba if US removed missiles from Turkey - 317th- La Brigada 2506 landed at Bay of Pigs and encounteres a force of about 20,000 men. La Brigada only 1500 men19th- fighting ended.About 100 of La Brigada were killed and 1,100 imprisoned
Dec 1962- La Brigada imprisoned were released after $53million worth of food and meds given to Cuba
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- Cambridge IGCSE History (Cold War) Flashcards on Cuban Missile Crisis, created by Konrad O'Neill on 29/07/2013.
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