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Fidel Castro assumes power after the Cuban Revolution
After over five years of revolution, Fidel Castro finally overthrows Batista to take control over Cuba -
Bay of Pigs
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Castro declares Cuba Socialist
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USSR arms Cuba
USSR publically announces that they are helping to arm Cuba. By September 1962, Cuba was the largest equipped Latin American army which included Soviet missiles, patrol boats, tanks, radar vans, missile erectors, jet bombers, jet fighters and 5000 soviet technicians to maintain these weapons were stationed in Cuba. -
USSR assures USA
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USSR Assures USA it had no need or intention to nuclearize Cuba. -
Kennedy warns USSR
Kennedy warned USSR that he would ‘prevent by whatever means necessary’ Cuba becoming a (nuclear) missile base -
Bobby Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy Bobby Kennedy meets Soviet contact to inform them the Turkey missiles are to be removed -
Spy Plans fly over Cuba
These planes took detailed photographs of missile sites.Experts concluded that they were nuclear missile sites and they were built by Soviets -
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Kennedy informed about Missiles
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Kennedy is informed about the missile build-up that the Soviets are going to transport to Cuba -
Kennedy decides to blockade Cuba
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Kennedy decides to blockade Cuba. By creating a navel blocked surrounding Cuba, the aim was to stop Soviet ships from getting to Cuba. -
Kennedy calls for USSR withdrawal
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“I call on Chairman Khrushev to halt and eliminate this reckless and provocative threat to world peace… He has the opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction by… withdrawing these weapons from Cuba.” -
Khrushchev not observing blockade
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Khrushchev says Soviet ships will not observe the blockade -
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First Soviet Ships Approach Blockade
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20 Soviet Ships turn around
At 10.32am, 20 USSR ships turn around just before the USA blockade line -
Missile bases in Cuba still worked on
Ariel photographs were taken showing work on the missile bases in Cuba still progressing. -
Khrushchev sends first letter
Letters Claims missiles purely defensive
“If assurances were given that the USA not invade Cuba and the blockade was lifted then the question of the removal or the destruction of the missile sites would be an entirely different question.” ~ Khrushchev -
Khrushchev's Second Letter
Letters Khrushchev sends second letter
Revises his proposals
Condition for removing missiles from Cuba iif USA removes missiles from Turkey -
Kennedy replies to Khrushchev
Kennedy accepts term of first letter
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Khrushchev's
Letter “In order to eliminate as rapidly as possible the conflict which endangers the cause of peace… the Soviet Government has given a new order to dismantle the arms which you described as offensive and to create and return them to the Soviet Union” ~ Khrushchev
