Cold War 1960s Flashcards
Bay of Pigs
What was the reason for the Bay of
Pigs?
Sugar
Fulgencio Batista…
President of Cuba..he Murdered over 20,000 workers and
peasants.
Castro takes
Santiago de Cuba with
5,000 soldiers
in a bloodless Coup d’etat.
Castro’s Take-Over
what happens during the take over
-Nationalizes the telephone company
Castro’s Take-Over
February 2, 1959—1st assassination
attempt
on Castro by Allen Mayer
Castro’s Take-Over
Agrarian Reform Law—May 17, 1959
Cuban families own land for the first
time.
and
Cuban government buys foreign lands
and prevents any foreign ownership.
Bay of Pigs
Planning for Bay of Pigs—(Operation Zapata)
U.S. and Cuban troops are being trained in
Guatemala. Why?
U.S. overthrew this government in 1954
considering they wanted to nationalize land
owned by United Fruit.
Bay of Pigs
U.S. Position on Cuba
March 17, 1960-
President
Eisenhower approves of a covert
plan to overthrow Cuba
Bay of Pigs
John Foster Dulles:
U.S. Secretary of State..
He is a stock holder and
legal advisor for United
Fruit.
( He refuses to negotiate peace.)
Bay of Pigs
The United Fruit Company attained..
270, 000 acres
of land in Cuba.
35,000 acres
of which is held by United Fruit.
Bay of Pigs
June 1959—U.S. government…
reduces its sugar
quota from Cuba
Bay of Pigs — Timeline
May 7, 1960—
1960—Cuba starts diplomatic relations with U.S.S.R.
Bay of Pigs — Timeline
July 3, 1960
U.S. suspends trading sugar with Cuba,
Berlin Wall—Operation Wall of China
November 27, 1958—Nikita Khrushchev issued an ultimatum to
the three western powers giving them six months to turn West
Berlin into a “demilitarized free city”
**Cuban Missile Crisis
Timeline**
