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Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution.
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Cuba becomes allies with the Soviet Union.
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The United States ends all diplomatic relations with Cuba.
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President Kennedy promises to not intervene and help overthrow Castro.
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Supported by U.S. a group of Cuban exiles invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs hoping to start an anti-Castro rebellion. The invasion was a failure.
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Castro announces that Cuba is taking measures that would make any attack on the U.S. the equivilant of another world war. He says the Soviet Union has invested greatly in helping defend his country.
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Senator Keating tells the Senate there is evidence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. Keating urges Kennedy to take action.
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Kennedy orders a U-2 reconnasissance flight over Cuba and they discover the missiles.
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Kennedy is told by General Maxwell Taylor that an air strike cannot guarantee to destroy all the missiles.
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Khrushchev, the leader of the USSR, sends a letter to Kennedy stating that he will remove the missiles if the U.S. pubicly announces they will never invade Cuba.
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Khrushchev announces over a radio in Moscow that he has decided to remove the missiles in Cuba. The Cold War was a war without bloodshed. The Cuban missile crisis impacted the relationship between the Soviet Union and United States. It was the closest confrontation we had with them and it almost caused us to enter into war.
