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Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.
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A group of Cuban exiles, backed by the US, invades Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in a failed attempt to trigger an anti-Castro rebellion.
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Khrushchev and Kennedy hold summit talks in Vienna regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Senator Kenneth Keating tells the Senate that there is evidence of Soviet missile installations in Cuba.
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Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, warns that an American attack on Cuba could mean war with the Soviet Union
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A U-2 flying over western Cuba obtains photographs of missile sites
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JFK sends a letter to Khrushchev placing the responsibility for the crisis on the Soviet Union
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Khrushchev sends a letter to President Kennedy proposing to remove his missiles if Kennedy publicly announces never to invade Cuba
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Khrushchev announces over Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba.
The US agrees to the withdrawal of US nuclear missiles from Turkey.