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The Crisis Begins
American U2 flights take pictures over Cuba, Later, those photos would be analyzed and it would be discovered that the USSR had been building missile sites -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Missile Sites confirmed
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Kennedy notified
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Kennedy notifies the nation
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Castro urges Khrushchev to nuke the US
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Khrushchev offers to remove the missiles
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Black Saturday: American U2 shot down over Cuba. Khrushchev sends Kennedy a second letter demanding harsher terms.
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The crisis ends: A peaceful resolution is found