Cuba

Cuban Missile Crisis

By richardbugarin

  • October Crisis

    October Crisis
    For several days in October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union were on the brink of nuclear war.

  • The Bay of Pigs

    The Bay of Pigs
    Some Americans called for an invasion of Cuba. Khrushchev had pledged to defend Cuba.

  • Nuclear weapons

    Nuclear weapons
    The Soviets were concerned about missiles the United States had placed in Turkey, so they placed missiles in Cuba

  • SAM'S

    SAM'S
    Krushchev decided to upgrade Cuba's defenses with antiaircraft weapons. He also convinced Castro to allow the secret installation of​ offensive nuclear missiles that would be controlled by the Soviet Union.

  • Peace Treaty

    The Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. The U.S. ,the Soviet Union and Great Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to end the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere and underwater.