The Cuban Missile Crisis

• When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

  1962
• the Cuban Missile crisis was probably the nearest the Cold War came to becoming a nuclear war between USA and the Soviet Union
• nuclear missile bases in Cuba posed a great threat to America, causing America to feel highly threatened
• the Bay of PIgs, date ?

  17th-19th April 1961
• When were spy planes spotted taking images of Soviet missiles in Cuba ?

  14th October 1962
• president Kennedy made a televised address about the missiles and implements a naval blockade on the 22nd October 1962
• on the 26th October 1962, Khrushchev sends a letter to Kennedy saying the Soviets will remove the Cuban missiles, in exchange for the United Stated promising not to invade Cuba
• on the 28th October 1962, Kennedy and Khrushchev makes statements that Soviet missiles will be removed from Cuba
• on April 1963 US missiles are removed from Turkey