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Ireland Timeline

By mariaclarachen

  • Stalin dies and Khrushchev comes into power of the USSR

  • The Warsaw Pact is established

  • Fidel Castro assumes power

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • American discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba

    American U-2 aircraft flying over Cuba takes photographs of the Soviet nuclear missiles being planted on the coast of the island

  • JFK's Speech regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis

    President Kennedy addresses the nation to spread awareness of the crisis

  • Khrushchev send letter to Kennedy

    Letter proposes removal of nuclear missiles from Cuba if a public announcement is made by Kennedy stating that the United States will not invade Cuba

  • Kennedy responds to letter

    Kennedy agrees with conditions created by Khrushchev.

  • American U-2 aircraft is shot down whilst flying over Cuba

  • End of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    Khrushchev announces he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba, in return, the US agrees to the withdrawal of US nuclear missiles from Turkey, therefore ending the crisis