Cuban Missile Crisis
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- October 16, 1962
- WHAT! This is not what I wanted!
- October 18, 1962
- STOP THIS NOW!
- October 20, 1962
- I am not tolerting this anymore. This has to stop. They can't have more missiles!
- President John F;Kennedy was shown photographs of Soviet nuclear missile installations under construction in Cuba
- October 23, 1962
- Put Cuba in quarantine!
- President Kennedy meets with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrie Gromyko and advises him that America will not tolerate Soviet missiles in Cuba. Gromyko denies the presence of any Soviet weaponry in Cuba.
- October 26, 1962
- We will remove our missiles if....
- President Kennedy returns to Washington to discuss the discovery of additional Soviet missiles in Cuba.
- October 18, 1962
- Cuban Missile Crisis is over!!
- The OAS (Organization of American States) supports the decision to quarantine Cuba. Reconnaissance photos reveal that Soviet missiles are ready for launch.
- EX-COMM receives a letter from Khrushchev stating that the Soviets would remove their missiles if President Kennedy publicly guarantees the U.S. will not invade Cuba.
- The crisis is over. In a speech aired on Radio Moscow, Khrushchev announces the dismantling of Soviet missiles in Cuba and does not insist on his demands concerning the removal of U.S. missiles from Turkey.
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