Cuban Missil Crisis

By mbowie1

  • Bay of Pigs

    Invasion

  • U-2 Pilot Heyser

    Flew over Cuba secretly photographing their missils

  • EX-COMM Meeting

    Kennedy wrote a letter to persuade Cuba to get rid of missils by promising that the US would not invade Cuba

  • President Kennedy decides on a naval blockade of Cuba

  • DEFCON 3

    President Kennedy addresses the American public and announces his plan

  • The Worst Day

    EX-COMM receives a letter from Khrushchev stating that the Soviets willl remove their missils if Kennedy agrees not to invade Cuba