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=Cuban Missile Crisis=



Soviet Ship with missiles en route to Cuba

United Nation meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis
 * 1959 || Fidel Castro leads an Anti-American revolution ||
 * 1960 || Soviet Union begins exchanging sugar for oil ||
 * 1961 || Nikita Khrushchev gains power ||
 * April 17, 1961 || US forces transport 1,500 Cuban dissidents to the island ||
 * December 1961 || Castro declares his conversion to Marxist-Leninist ideology ||
 * 1962 || Cuban Missile Crisis begins ||
 * October 1962 || Kennedy receives aerial photos of missiles in transit ||
 * October 16, 1962 || American U-2 reconnaissance plane shot down over Cuba ||
 * October 22, 1962 || President John F. Kennedy tells the nation about the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba ||
 * October 28, 1962 || Nikita Khrushchev withdraws nuclear arms from Cuba ||
 * October 29, 1962 || President John F. Kennedy and the Executive Committee of the National Security Council meet ||
 * December 8, 1962 || US Secretary of State Dean Rusk says, "We're eyeball to eyeball and i think the other fellow just blinked." ||



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