Key dates on the Cuban Missile crisis Flashcards
When did Fidel Castro seize power in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution?
1959
When did the US launch a trade embargo against Cuba, banning Cuban sugar imports?
1960
When did the Bay of Pigs invasion take place?
April 17, 1961
When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
October 1962
When did US spy planes photograph Soviet missile bases being built in Cuba?
October 14, 1962
When did President Kennedy announce the US naval blockade (quarantine) around Cuba?
October 22, 1962
When did Soviet ships turn back from approaching the US quarantine zone?
October 24, 1962
When did the US and the USSR reach an agreement to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis?
October 28, 1962
When did the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, limiting nuclear weapons testing, come into effect?
1963
When did Khrushchev step down as the Soviet leader following the crisis?
1964
