FP 1959


 

 

 

Eisenhower coins the term "domino theory" to explain why the U.S. should intervene to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia.

 

 


 

 

Cuban leader Fidel Castro (1926-) established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959