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Castro announces
That Cuba is taking measures that would make any direct U.S. attack on Cuba the equivalent of a world war. He claims that the U.S.S.R. has invested greatly in helping defend his country. -
The Bay of Pigs
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 -
Speech
In a speech to the UN, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko warns that an American attack on Cuba could mean war with the Soviet Union -
Cuba's nuclear missle base
An American U2 spy-plane took pictures of a nuclear missile base being built on Cuba. Kennedy’s advisers told him he had 10 days before Cuba could fire the missiles at targets in America. -
Khrushchev wants peace
Khrushchev sends a letter to Kennedy proposing to remove his missiles if Kennedy publicly announces never to invade Cuba -
End of The Cuban Missle Crisis
Khrushchev announces over Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba
So ends Cuban Missile Crisis and the most perilous period in World History and the terrifying possibility of a Nuclear War
