Cuba: B.O.P + Missile

• Cuban Revolutionled to Castro overthrowing Batista in Jan 1959


  Castro nationalised all American property in Cuba
• USA banned import of Cuban sugar

  Cuba and USSR formally became allies
• What happened in Cuba


  1. Castro became the leader of Cuba

  2. Castro nationalised all American property in Cuba

  3. USA banned import of Cuban sugar

  4. Khrushchev provided support to Cuba
• Bay of Pigs invasion


  • CIA trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba
  • Launched the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion
  • Counter-attack by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
  • Exiles overrun by 20,000 Cuban soldiers
  • 100 members of La Brigada were killed, 1100 imprisoned
• Bay of Pigs invasion failed


  Communism strengthened
• Events during the Cuban Missile Crisis


  1. 22nd Oct: Kennedy raises nuclear threat level

  2. 24th Oct: Soviet ships turn around at the blockade

  3. 26th Oct: Khrushchev sends first telegram

  4. 27th Oct: Khrushchev sends second telegram and U-2 spy plane shot down

  5. 28th Oct: Kennedy announces blockade

  6. 30th Oct: Peaceful resolution
• Events during the Cuban Missile Crisis in chronological order

  • 24th oct 1968 Soviet ships turned around to avoid confrontation with US blockade
  • 26th oct 1968 Khrushchev said he would withdraw missiles if the USA promised to end the blockade
  • 27th oct 1968 Khrushchev demanded that the USA remove missiles from Turkey
  • 28th oct Khrushchev agreed to withdraw missiles from Cuba Kennedy agreed to first telegram
  • US secretly agreed to 2nd telegram on 27th of Oct