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After a six-year long revolution President Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba and Fidel Castro assumes power after proclaiming victory in Santiago.
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Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies
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"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
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September 11: 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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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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Soviet ships, en route to Cuba, reverse their course except for one. US Military forces go to DEFCON 2
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An American U-2 is shot down over Cuba killing the pilot, Major Rudolf Anderson
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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
