Time Line

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.