On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro assumes power of Cuba after leading the Communist revolution with Che Guevara and the rebel army overthrows President Fulgencio Batista. Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their Communist policies, and a Communist State was set up with Russian backing. Fidel Castro allowed the USSR to deploy nuclear missiles on the island, which caused the U.S. to terminate diplomatic relations with Cuba in January of 1961. By April of the same year, a group of Cuban exiles (backed by the US) invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in a failed attempt to trigger an anti-Castro rebellion. In June, President Khrushchev and President Kennedy hold summit talks in Vienna regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over a year later
