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Fidel Castro seizes power in Cuba.
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Castro declares support for Khrushchev’s cause against the US.
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Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.
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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
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Khrushchev and Kennedy hold summit talks in Vienna regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Senator Kenneth Keating tells the Senate that there is evidence of Soviet missile installations in Cuba
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Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, warns that an American attack on Cuba could mean war with the Soviet Union
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A U-2 flying over western Cuba obtains photographs of missile sites
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff strongly advise Kennedy to make an air strike ( the discussions are referred to as the EX-COMM's )
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Gromyko assures Kennedy that Soviet Cuban aid has been only for the "defensive capabilities of Cuba."
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Congressional leaders are shown the photographic evidence of the Soviet missile Cuban installations and the President addresses the nation regarding the Cuban crisis
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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
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Soviet ships, en route to Cuba, reverse their course except for one.
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JFK sends a letter to Khrushchev placing the responsibility for the crisis on the Soviet Union
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Khrushchev sends a letter to President Kennedy proposing to remove his missiles if Kennedy publicly announces never to invade Cuba
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An American U-2 is shot down over Cuba killing the pilot, Major Rudolf Anderson
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A U-2 strays into Soviet airspace, near Alaska, and is nearly intercepted by Soviet fighters
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Kennedy sends Khrushchev a letter stating that he will make a statement that the U.S. will not invade Cuba if Khrushchev removes the missiles from Cuba
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Khrushchev announces over Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba
