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Eduardo Chibás, leader of the Ortodoxo party and mentor of Fidel Castro commits suicide on live radio.
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heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
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Batista fled Cuba
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the CIA-backed force of 1,400 Cuban refugees landed at the swampy Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s southern coast. A Cuban force of 20,000 easily overwhelmed the invaders, capturing about 1,100 men and imprisoning them.
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to prevent people from East Germany and other Soviet-controlled countries from escaping to the West, the East German government surrounded West Berlin with a barbed-wire barrier during the night of August 12–13, 1961. They also ordered the construction of a high, solid wall of thick concrete. On the East German side of the wall was an open area patrolled by armed guards, known as “no man’s land.”
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On October 23, 1961, a poll showed that one-fifth of Americans believed World War III was coming soon.
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In 1962, intelligence reports noted a dramatic increase in the cooperation between Cuba and the Soviet Union
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By October 15, 1962, the administration knew with certainty that Cuba had the missiles and the launching capacity to attack the United States
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On October 22, President Kennedy issued a formal demand to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev that the missiles be removed from Cuba
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In 1963, a direct telegraph line was built that allowed leaders from both countries to send messages to each other quickly. In the same year, the United States, the Soviet Union, and more than 100 other nations signed a treaty that banned the testing of nuclear weapons, except underground.
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In 1963, a direct telegraph line was built that allowed leaders from both countries to send messages to each other quickly. In the same year, the United States, the Soviet Union, and more than 100 other nations signed a treaty that banned the testing of nuclear weapons, except underground.
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on October 28, a settlement was reached. Khrushchev agreed to stop sending missiles to Cuba and to return the missiles already in Cuba to the Soviet Union. In addition, he agreed to dismantle the launching sites. In return, Kennedy promised that the United States would not invade Cuba and also secretly agreed to remove U.S. nuclear-armed missiles from Turkey.
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The end of the Cuban Missile Crisis did not mean an end to Cold War conflicts in Latin America. a revolution threatened to overthrow the government of the Dominican Republic.
