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Arms Race Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis

Arms Race Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis. Mr. Doherty / Mrs. T. SCR PG 5. Arms Race. Each side built up its supply of missiles and atomic bombs. Stalin dies, 1953, and is replaced by Nikita Khrushchev Soviets launch Sputnik (worlds first satellite)

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Arms Race Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis

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  1. Arms Race Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Mr. Doherty / Mrs. T

  2. SCR PG 5

  3. Arms Race • Each side built up its supply of missiles and atomic bombs. • Stalin dies, 1953, and is replaced by Nikita Khrushchev • Soviets launch Sputnik (worlds first satellite) • U.S. creates National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958.

  4. Nikita Krushchev

  5. SCR PG 6

  6. Bay of Pigs Invasion • 1959, Fidel Castro sets up communist gov’t in Cuba • Many Cuban exiles flee to the U.S. • Exiles are trained in U.S. for secret invasion on Cuba. • 1961, John F. Kennedy becomes President  April 17 exiles land at Bay of Pigs. • Castro’s forces quickly rounded up invaders and the invasion is a failure.

  7. After Bay of Pigs invasion, Soviets give Cuba more weapons. Oct. 1962, JFK learns that Soviets were building missile bases in Cuba. Cuban Missile Crisis

  8. Fidel Castro (Cuba) Nikita Krushchev (U.S.S.R)

  9. Kennedy decides to use naval blockade Compromise between Krushchev & Kennedy Soviets remove nuclear bombs from Cuba U.S. remove nuclear bombs from Turkey. Cuban Missile Crisis

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