-
Castro takes over Cuba. Castro then sides with the USSR, even with it US attempts to side with him. The US invasion plan not only failed, but was the cause for lost lives and the reason why Castros position got stronger. -
American spy plane took pictures of a nuclear base being built on Cuba -
When Kennedy’s EX-COMM meets, he is warned that cuba could potentially start firing missles in about 10 days. -
Gromyko, a soviet union politician, meets with Kennedy and assures him that Soviet weapons were given to Cuba only for the defence of Cuba. -
– Kennedy makes a televised address to the
nation announcing the blockade of Cuba -
Adlai Stevenson speaks at the UN, confronts
the soviet ambassador, showing evidence of Soviet
aggression -
This resulted in th death of the pilot; Robert Kennedy visits the Soviet Ambassador and promises that the US will not invade if the bases in Cuba are dismantled. They were given 24 hours to
decide otherwise the assault would begin -
Kruschev agrees to the decisions, and ends up losing his job
due to his people thinking of him as weak/ uncapable. -
A monk set himself on fire to protest against the South Vietnamese government. -
President Diem was overthrown and executed in a military coup approved by the American CIA.