The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Cuban Revolution
The United States found themselves with a communist country 90 miles off their coast in the middle of the Cold War. The US was none too happy about having a communist government so close to their shore. In 1961, the US supported a very half-hearted invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles at a place called the Bay of Pigs. This only drove the Cubans closer to the Soviets for their own protection from a future invasion by the U.S. And there was something else that happened in 1961 which set up the events in this episode.
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