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Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
President Kennedy is informed that the 29 August U-2 mission confirms the presence of surface-to-air missile batteries in Cuba. Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) 16 October: McGeorge Bundy informs President Kennedy that evidence shows Soviet medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba. Kennedy immediately gathers a group that becomes known as "ExComm ...
EXCOMM meeting in the White House Cabinet Room during the Cuban Missile Crisis on October 29, 1962. The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (commonly referred to as simply the Executive Committee or ExComm) was a body of United States government officials that convened to advise President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Consolidation of the revolution (1959–1962) Cuban exodus (1959–) Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Grey years (1971-76) Institutionalization process (1976-1986) Intervention in Angola (1975–1991) Rectification process (1986-1992) Special Period (1991–2000) Battle of Ideas (2000-2006) Cuban thaw (2015–2017) Timeline
The name was derived from then Cuban President Fidel Castro by spelling his surname backwards.. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, upon discovery of SS-4 missiles being assembled in Cuba, the U.S. Government considered several options including a blockade (an act of war under international law, so it was called a "quarantine"), an airstrike, or a military strike against the Cuban missile positions.
In the wake of the Cuban missile crisis the Soviet Union removed the planes from Cuba. This photo was published in The Miami Herald December 7, 1962. 10/25/1962: Navy destroyers at dockside in Key ...
Operation Anadyr (Russian: Анадырь) was the code name used by the Soviet Union for its Cold War secret operation in 1962 of deploying ballistic missiles, medium-range bombers, and a division of mechanized infantry to Cuba to create an army group that would be able to prevent an invasion of the island by United States forces. [1]
Consolidation of the revolution (1959–1962) Cuban exodus (1959–) Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Grey years (1971-76) Institutionalization process (1976-1986) Intervention in Angola (1975–1991) Rectification process (1986-1992) Special Period (1991–2000) Cuban thaw (2015–2017) Timeline