Wednesday october 17 an ss 5 irbm site the first of three to be identified is detected in cuba. President kennedy convenes his executive committee to consider america s options. Tuesday october 16 crisis begins.
A u 2 reconnaissance aircraft reveals several ss 4 nuclear missiles in cuba. The cuban revolution was an affront to the united states which took. The first was the rise of the cuban communist movement which in 1959 overthrew president fulgencio batista and brought fidel castro to power.
Soviet general secretary nikita khrushchev s decision to put nuclear missiles in cuba was precipitated by two major developments. Would deploy missiles to cuba to help deter any future invasions by the united states and to counter american missiles in turkey. These two events the discovery of covert american aggression in cuba and the deployment of nuclear missiles to turkey led castro and khrushchev to strike a secret arrangement.
After several days of increasing tensions the soviet union finally agreed to remove the missiles. President kennedy responded with a naval blockade. These missiles would have been capable of quickly reaching the united states.
On october 15 1962 the soviet union was discovered attempting to install nuclear missiles in cuba. The crisis was a defining moment in the presidency of john f. Cuban missile crisis major confrontation at the height of the cold war that brought the united states and the soviet union to the brink of a shooting war in october 1962 over the presence of soviet nuclear armed missiles in cuba.
Kɐˈrʲipskʲɪj ˈkrʲizʲɪs or the missile scare was a 13 day october 16 28 1962 confrontation between the united states and the soviet union initiated by soviet ballistic missile deployment in cuba. Crisis de octubre the caribbean crisis russian. The cuban missile crisis also known as the october crisis of 1962 spanish.
