Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

Gapfill exercise

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   Bay of Pigs      Cuba      Fidel Castro      guerrilla      Turkey      United States      unsuccessful   
1. Cuba is an island nation about 90 miles away from the .

2. became the new leader of Cuba in 1959.

3. President Eisenhower gave $13.1 million to the CIA to train the exiles in warfare.

4. The United States decided to help the exiles invade .

5. On April 17, 1500 soldiers landed at the .

6. The mission was .

7. The U.S.S.R. and the United States worked out an agreement. The Soviets would take their missiles out of and the United States would take their missiles out of .