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On this day, January 1st, Fidel gets power of Cuba
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Cuba openly agrees to follow Russia and its policies.
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The United States backs a group of Cuban rebel to invade Cuba and trigger a nation wide rebellion completely failed
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The senate was alerted that the Soviets moved nuclear missiles into Cuba
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An American U-2 plane flies over Cuba and gets pictures of the missile sights
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Period of time which the United States and Soviet Union are the closest to nuclear war.
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Soviet congressman, Andrei Gromyko, states that the missiles are just for defensive structure of the country
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United States shows congressional figures the photographic evidence of the missile sights and automatically go into DEFCON 3
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Soviet ships going towards Cuba turned around and when back to the Soviet Union
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Nikita Khrushchev send a letter to president Kennedy that says they will remove the missiles from Cuba if he says he won't invade Cuba
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An American U-2 plane was shot down over Cuba, killing the pilot.
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Another American U-2 flying over Alaska gets close to Soviet airspace and was almost shot down. The same day Kennedy sends a letter to the Soviet Union that says the United States will not invade Cuba if the Soviet Union takes the missiles out of Cuba.
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Nikita Khrushchev announces that he will remove the missiles from Cuba.
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The United States agreed to remove their missiles from Turkey if the missiles in Cuba were removed. Both nations accepted and missile sites in Cuba and Turkey were both removed.
