Cuban missile crisis

Cuban missile crisis

By shuggy95

  • Fidel Castro

    Fidel Castro assumes power after the Cuban Revolution

  • Cuba

    Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.

  • U.s

    he U.S. terminates diplomatic relations

  • 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

  • CMC

    Khrushchev and Kennedy hold summit talks in Vienna regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Kenneth Keating

    Senator Kenneth Keating tells the Senate that there is evidence of Soviet missile installations in Cuba

  • soviet minister

    Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, warns that an American attack on Cuba could mean war with the Soviet Union

  • misissle sites

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

  • air strike

    The Joint Chiefs of Staff strongly advise Kennedy to make an air strike