EP#05- The Granma by La Yuma Cubana

The Moncada Barracks was a military barracks in Santiago de Cuba. On July 26, 1953, the barracks was the site of an armed attack by a small group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro. This event is widely accepted as the inception of the Cuban Revolution The date on which the attack took place, July 26, was adopted by Castro as the name for his revolutionary movement (Movimiento 26 Julio or M 26-7) which eventually toppled the Batista dictatorship.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, or Crisis de Octubre, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion, or Batalla de Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to train and arm a group of counter-revolutionary Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro on 17 April 1961.

Operation Peter Pan, or Operación Pedro Pan, was a mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors to the United States between 1960 and 1962.