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Bay Of Pigs
In March of 1960 a devastating event for the United States occured called the Bay of Pigs. The Bay of Pigs was when President Eisenhower gave permission to the CIA to invade Cuba with some Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro. President Roosevelt grudgingly approved. This didn't really affect relations with the Soviets because they did not know. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
About 1500 Cuban exiles were sent to Cuba with help from the U.S. military. When they landed nothing worked out and the entire mission was gigantic fail. Nothing went as planned and they ended up looking foolish, most of the exiles were killed others captured. It ended up costing the U.S. 53 million dollars in supplies to get the imprisoned exiles released. This affected the U.S. relationship with Russia in the way that the Soviets laughed at us and thought we were pathetic. -
JFK is pissed about the Soviets helping Cuba
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev declared he would help Cuba no matter what. Nikita sent a large amount of soviet weapons including A-bombs to Cuba to use to defend themselves against the U.S. JFK declared that "America will not tolerate offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba". The Soviets pissed off JFK. -
Launch pads discoverd
The Cuban Missile Crisris was when U.S. planes flew over Cuban launch pads and took pictures of Soviet Nuclear bombs on these launch pads. JFK responded by informing his nation of the crisis and then saying any bombing from Cuba would result in all out war against the Soviets. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
President Kennedy learned that the Soviet Union had Nuclear missiles stationed all over Cuba. Kennedy told the Nation that he wanted to remove the missiles but any Attack from Cuba would start an all out war on the Soviet Union. -
Preventing a Nuclear Attack
The world was terrified that world could go into nuclear warfare. The US prepared for an attack by readying the Navy to prevent Soviet ships from getting within 500 miles of Florida. They also stationed 100,000 troops in Florida, which was the largest invasion force ever assembled in the US. -
Soviet Ships Come to a Halt
Soviet ships, loaded up with missiles suddenly stopped, in their route to Cuba. They did this to avoid a confrontation at sea. -
The End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The US and Soviet Union agreed to remove missiles from Cuba only if the US pledged to not invade Cuba. The Us also secretly agreed to remove missiles from.
