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Bay of Pigs. 1961. CIA-financed Cuban invasion by exiles fails. Cuban Missile Crisis.
Cuban Missile Crisis. 1962. Kennedy blockades Cuba to prevent Soviet missile installation.
Kennedy, John. 1917-63. US President 1961-. -“New Frontier”. Peace Corps. Apollo Program. Cuban Missile Crisis. Assassinated by Oswald. Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
Thant, U. 1909-74. Burmese statesman. UN Secretary General. 1962-71. Cuban Missile Crisis. Congo. Cyprus. Six Day War.
Batista, Fulgencio. 1901-73. Authoritarian Cuban right-wing dictator 1933-4, 52-8. Toppled by Castro.
Castro, Fidel. 1926-. Cuban lawyer. Cuban Revolution. Dictator 1959-.
Cuban Revolution. 1956-9. Castro overthrows Batista.
Finlay, Carlos. 1833-1915. Cuban. Discovered that Yellow Fever is transmitted by mosquitoes 1881. Reed.
Garcia Iñiguez, Calixto. 1836-98. Cuban leader. Ten Years War. Spanish-American War.
Heredia, Jose de. 1842-1905. Cuban/French Parnassian poet.
Martí, José. 1853-95. Led Cuban war vs Spain.
Santiago, Battle. 1898. Final Cuban victory over Spain, Spanish American War.
Spanish American War. 1898. US supports Cuban rebellion vs Spain. Gains Cuba, Guam, Philippines for $20M, Puerto Rico. Roosevelt. Maine.
Ten Years’ War. 1868-78. Failed Cuban rebellion vs Spain. Virginius Affair.
26th of July Movement. 1956-9. Castro rebels in Cuban Revolution. Named for date of failed attack on Santiago barracks 1953.
Virginius Affair. 1873. Spain siezes US flagged Cuban ship, Virginius. Executes 53 for smuggling arms to Cuba during Ten Years War. Indemnity paid to US, Great Britain.
Nassau Agreement. 1962. US-British agreement on Polaris missiles for Royal Navy caused DeGaulle to veto British entry to EEC.
V-1, V-2. 1944. WWII German missiles vs Britain, Belgium. V=Vergeltung(Revenge). 8,000 V-1s. 1300 V-2s. Basis for future space research.
Agadir Crisis. 1911. French/German crisis by German manoevres off Morocco.
Aventine Secession. 1924. 150 Italian government members protest Fascist government. Matteotti.
Balkan Crisis. 1875-8. Britain, Austria fear Russian expansion. Congress of Berlin.
Balkan League. 1912-13. Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro. Balkan Wars.
Bosnian Crisis. 1908-9. Russia sides with Serbian rebels after Austria-Hungary annexation. Black Hand.
Chanak Crisis. 1922. British fear Turkish threat to Dardanelles. Lausanne Peace, 1923.
Cold War. 1946-90. Alternating crisis and detente between west and east, begun with Russia breaking Potsdam Agreement and creating communist regimes in East Germany and Czechoslovakia.