THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

After the failure of the invasion

Anti-Castro exiles

April 1962

Opens a very tense period

Cuba and the United States

Beggining

Both countries began a shy approximation,

October 26

American Plane U-2 that had the mission to spy the island

Shot down by a Cuban battery increased the tension of aan open war.

On day 27

Khrushchev proposed Kennedy

withdraw missiles

if formally not invade Cuba

to remove U.S. missiles

Turkey and Italy

The Soviet ships

nuclear weapons

soldiers and conventional weapons

Consecuences

United States

clashes to countries

Vietnam

created the famous "phone red"

the White House

Kremlin

Nikita was away from the office

1964

Kennedy was killed

1963

The United States planned a new plan to invade the island

The missiles

The photos were shuttles building missiles that could be operational

Florida was only 200 km from the scope

On October 22,

Kennedy ordered naval forces

To block the island to prevent the entry of more material

Cuba

All the bodies were mobilized and alert

The tension was a nuclear war between two partners

URSS y EE.UU

Direct way with performance of the U.S. Army.

The USSR intelligence detected the plan

President Nikita

Gives the option to Fidel put missiles of medium range available

Nuclear warheads

The Cuban leader accepts

THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS BEGINS

These missiles had the mission to dissuade the Americans

Cancel the plan of invasion of the island

The missiles were discharged in Cuba

US aircraft carried out pictures that were sent to the CIA for analysis.