Cuban missile crisis Flashcards
Sunday 14th October
A US U2 spy plane photographs nuclear missile launch sites in cuba
Monday 15th October
US national photograph intelligence centre reviews and verifies the u2 pictures
Tuesday 16th October
Kennedy assembles EXCOMM to discuss us military and diplomatic response
Wednesday 17th October
Members of EXCOMM press for airstrikes
Another u2 flight reveals ICBMs on cuba
Thursday 18th October
Kennedy meets the Soviet foreigh minister Andrei Gromyko
Kennedy warns him that missiles must not be installed in Cuba
Gromyko insists the the SU are just aiding Cuba’s defensive capabilities
Friday 19th October
Kennedy leaves Washingotn for scheduled campaign speeches In Cleaveland and the west Coast
Saturday 20th October
Kennedy cancels the rest of the campaign under the pretence of “health reasons”
Meets his advisers and orders a defensive blockade
Sunday 21st october
General Maxwell Taylor informs Kennedy that a US air strike couldn’t be guaranteed to destroy all soviet missiles in Cuba
Monday 22nd October
Kennedy announces the blockade of cuba on US TV
US go to DEFCON 3
Tuesday 23rd October
USSR ships approach the quarantine line 800 miles from Cuba
Kennedy pulls the quarantine line back to 300 miles
Wednesday 24th October
US move to DEFCON 2
All soviet ships turn back except for 1
Thursday 25th October
Kennedy sends Khrushchev a letter blaming the soviet union
Friday 26th October
Khrushchev sends a letter to Kennedy saying he will remove missiles if the USA removes the quarantine and pledges to never invade Cuba
Saturday 27th October
Khrushchev proposes trading soviet missiles in Cuba for US missiles in turkey
U2 spy plane shot down over cuba and the pilot is killed
kennedy responds to the USSR by saying they wont invade cuba if the missiles are removed and they would secretly remove missiles from turkey
Sunday 28th October
Krushchev accepts Kennedy’s terms
announced on Radio Moscow
crisis over
