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Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Cuban Missile crisis

    on September 4, 1962, President Kennedy had announced a public warning against the introduction of weapons into Cuba.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline

    The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was an direct conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  • Cuba Misslie Crisis

    The two superpowers plunged into one of their biggest Cold War confrontations after the pilot of an American U-2 spy plane making a high-altitude pass over Cuba on October 14, 1962, photographed a Soviet SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile being assembled for installation.
  • Missile Crissis

    During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    On October 22, he ordered a naval “quarantine” of Cuba. This use of “quarantine” was different from a blockade
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    On October 24, Khrushchev responded to Kennedy’s message saying that the blockade was an act of aggression.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    . On October 26, Kennedy told his advisors it appeared that only a U.S. attack on Cuba would remove the missiles, The crisis had reached a virtual stalemate.
  • Cuban missile crisis

    The two leaders completed the agreement and ended the crisis.
  • Cuba missile crisis

    Nearly all Kennedy's advisers agreed on landing U.S troops in Cuba.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    The crisis was over but the naval quarantine continued until November 20, 1962, the United States ended its quarantine in Cuba.