Fidel Castro’s nationalisation of American-owned businesses and private property led the Eisenhower administration to cut all diplomatic ties with Cuba.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Guevara was shot nine times in a way designed to make the injuries look like they had been caused during a battle with the Bolivian army.
On the 3rd January 1961, the United States of America severed its diplomatic relationship with Cuba and closed the American embassy in Havana.
On the 9th October 1967 the Marxist revolutionary icon, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed in Bolivia after being caught by CIA-assisted forces during his attempt to provoke a revolution.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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