Cuban missile crisis

By tbarnes02

  • Bay of pigs

    Fidel Castro takes his guerilla wafare army to overthrow the leader and government of Cuba

  • U-2 spy plane

    U-2 spy plane finds missiles placed by the soviets in cuba.

  • Ex-comm meeting

    Ex-Comm has its first meeting to discuss what to do about the missiles.

  • Robert Kennedy meets with soviet foreign minister

    Robert Kennedy meets with Soviet foreign minister to try and negotiate.

  • Ex-comm

    Ex-comm decides to quarantine Cuba.

  • Televised speech

    Kennedy gives a televised speech to the nation to inform them that the missiles have been found in Cuba and this is where the panic starts.

  • Soviet ships

    Soviet ships are stopped on their way to Cuba by Krushchev to not start any confrontation with the U.S. boats around Cuba.

  • Kennedy decides not to invade cuba

    Kennedy decides not to invade cuba in fer of a nuclear war.

  • Missiles removed

    Krushchev agreed to take the missiles off of Cuba and the crisis ends.