Cuban Missle crisis

superpower tension

Feb 20, 1958

http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war16.htm Tension between the U.S and the soviet union were growing and trouble was soon to arise. It was like a brotherly feud over who could be better and who would be the first. The space race, the arms race, and finally what brings us here today nuclear testing.

castro takes over cuba

Feb 23, 1959

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On December 2 1956, Fidel Castro and 81 other combatants, including Che Guevara, landed in Cuba to begin the revolutionary war against the US-backed regime of Fulgencio Batista. Over the next two years, the Rebel Army conducted an ever-widening guerrilla struggle that won increasing popular support in the countryside and the cities, culminating in the revolution's victory on January 1, 1959

The U.S stops trade with Cuba

Apr 19, 1960

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After castro took over cuba, america got scared of what he would do and where he would lead cuba. The other problem was that it was so close to the united states. They were just scared and uncertain if castro should be the one to lead that country. Then they found out about the missles and after that castro threatened the U.S. Thats when yhe U.S stopped trading with cuba.

anti-castro rebellion

Apr 1, 1961

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goo.gl/waHl4 Backed by the U.S., a group of Cuban exiles invades Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to trigger an anti-Castro rebellion. The president planned to use cuban exciles to sneak into cuba, locate castro, and finally take away his power. The invasion fails and more than a thousand Cuban rebels are captured by Castro's forces.

U.S.S.A

Jul 27, 1962

Castro announces that Cuba is taking measures that would make any direct U.S. attack on Cuba the equivalent of a world war. He claims that the Union Of Soviet Socialists Republics has invested greatly in helping defend his country.

CIA

Aug 10, 1962

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CIA Director John McCone sends a memo to Kennedy expressing his belief that Soviet medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) will be deployed in Cuba. Senator Kenneth Keating tells the Senate that there is evidence of Soviet missile installations in Cuba. Keating urges Kennedy to take action.

commitee of national security council

Oct 6, 1962

goo.gl/hYfwVThe president couldn't figure out what to do so finally on october 6,1962 he calls a commitee of national security council where the council debates on what to do and gives the president options on what to do.The president choes and finally just carries it out.http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war16.htm

Soviet Missiles

Oct 21, 1962

Kennedy is told by General Maxwell Taylor that an air strike could not guarantee to destroy all Soviet missiles in Cuba. Kennedy decides on a quarantine of Cuba for the time being. Kennedy requests that the press not deny him the "element of surprise" or he warns, "I don't know what the Soviets will do." Another U-2 flight that day reveals bombers and Migs being rapidly assembled and cruise missile sites being built on Cuba's northern shore.

Moving the Missiles

Oct 27, 1962

A new letter from Khrushchev arrives, proposing a public trade of Soviet missiles in Cuba for U.S. missile in Turkey. An American U-2 is shot down over Cuba killing the pilot, Major Rudolf Anderson. U-2 accidentally strays into Soviet airspace near Alaska nearly being intercepted by Soviet fighters. Dobrynin and Robert Kennedy meet and discuss the price of removing the missiles from Cuba.

cuban missle crisis resolved

Jan 6, 1963

Well, everyone is scared out of there minds. Each side is about to start world 3 in just one push of the button. Finally, there are highly dangerous nuclear material on both sides. Now we are finally castro sends a letter of compromise that he will dismantle all missle bases if he gets rid of the missles in turkey and takes of the blockade and after a couple of weeks of consider ation the cuban missle crisis is over.