January 1,1959 - Fidel Castro assumes power after the Cuban revolution.
December 9,1960 - Cuba openly alings it self with the soviet union and their policies.
January 3,1961 - The U.S. terminates diplomatic relations.
April 17,1961 - Bay of Pigs, a group of Cuban exiles backed by the U.S. invades Cuba but as resulted in a failure attempt to tiger an anti Castro rebellion.
June 3-4,1961 - Khrushchev and President Kennedy hold summit talks in vienna regarding the cuban missile installation.
August 31,1962 - Senator Kenneth Keating tells the senate that there is evidence of soviet missile installation in Cuba.
September 11,1962 - The minister of the soviet foreign Andrei Gromyco warns that if America attack on Cuba it means war with the soviet union.
October 14,1962 - U-2 spying plane flying over Western Cuba obtain photographs of missile sites.
October 22,1962 - U.S military forces go to defcon.
October 27,1962 - An American U-2 is shot down over Cuba cause the Cubians killed an American pilot his name was major Rudolf Anderson.
October 27,1962 - President Kennedy sends Khrushchev a letter saying that the United State will never invade Cuba unless Khrushchev removes the missiles from Cuba.
October 28,1962 - Khrushchev announced over the radio of moscow that he will take out the missiles of Cuba.
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