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The U.S. and Guatemala
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman began importing Soviet weapons. In response the United States sent wweapons to Honduras. Then an army from Honduras wnet in to Guatemala and overthrew Guzman. -
Fidel Castro in Cuba
Fidel Castro overthrows Fulgencio Batista in Cuba. U.S. recognizes Castro as new leader. Regardless Castro criticises the U.S. Cuba then establishes a relationship with the Soviet Union. -
Eisenhower and CIA develop plan to invade Cuba
Imminent threat of Cuba leads to the planning of a future invasion -
Bay of Pigs
1,400 Cuban exiles are trained by the CIA and sent to invade Cuba. When they landed the Cuban people did not join their side and they were surrounded and forced to surrender. -
Components of Brigade 2506 land in Cuba and fail
Easily defeated after two days -
Operation Mongoose Made
Planned to remove the Communist Castro regime from power in Cuba -
Operation Mongoose Components Incomplete
Castro regime remained in power -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union sent missiles to Cuba, in respoonse the U.S. started a blockade.JFK calls for the removal of WMD'd from Cuba. No one really wanted to be the first to fire. The Soviet Union backs down and removes the missiles. The U.S. then lifts the blockade, promises not to invade Cuba, and withdrawls missiles from Turkey. -
Kennedy Issues Warning to Kremlin
Public warning against the transportation and constuction of Soviet missiles into Cuba -
U-2 Bomber Survaillence Reaches D.C.
The images of ongoing construction of bases reaches the White House and the Cuban Missile Crisis begins -
Kennedy Orders Blockade
The use of “quarantine” legally distinguished this action from a blockade, which assumed a state of war existed; the use of “quarantine” instead of “blockade” also enabled the Unites States to receive the support of the Organization of American States. -
Khrushchev sends Kennedy letter
A long, emotional message that raised the specter of nuclear holocaust
