Cuba

• MAD policy

  Mutual Assistance Destruction

  If either USA and USSR initiate an attack, the other would so too
• Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) - US spy plane discovered missiles on Cuba
• The Soviet Union agreed to remove their missiles from Cuba if the US removed its missiles from Turkey
• Bay of Pigs invasion

  17 April 1961
• US trained Cubans invaded at Bay of Pigs but were defeated by Castro's army
• JFK broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba

  January 1961
• Kennedy decided on a blockade of Cuba

  20 October 1962
• Soviet dismantled arms and missiles back to USSR

  28 October 1962