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Cold War: Events Leading up to Cuban Missle Crisis

By atf790
  • End of WWII

    End of WWII

    Japan Surrenders End of WWII
  • Marshall Plan is Introduced

    Marshall Plan is Introduced

    Plan dedicated to helping countries affected by Communism
  • Korean War Begins

    Korean War Begins

    Korean War begins between communist north and democratic south
  • Korean War Ends

    Korean War Ends

    In 1953, the war ceased with an armistice that restored the border between the Koreas near the 38th Parallel
  • Cuba taken over by communist Fidel Castro

    Cuba taken over by communist Fidel Castro

  • Cuba allies itself with USSR

    Cuba allies itself with USSR

  • Bay of Pigs

    CIA tries to sneak attack Communist Cuba with old Cuban defects and fail
  • A U-2 flying over western Cuba obtains photographs of missile sites

    A U-2 flying over western Cuba obtains photographs of missile sites

  • Kennedy Addresses the Nation

    Kennedy Addresses the Nation

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7YkJxQT_0Y
  • Khrushchev letter to Kennedy

    Khrushchev letter to Kennedy

    Kennedy receives a letter from Khrushchev in which Khrushchev states that there is a, "serious threat to peace and security of peoples." Robert Kennedy speaks with Ambassador Dobrynin
  • Khrushchev announces over Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba

    Khrushchev announces over Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba