history: the cuban missile crisis

Batista fled Cuba

1st Jan 1959

Castro became leader of Cuba

2nd Jan 1959

Cuba under Batista’s rule

a playground for america (popular holiday destination and most of land and business owned by america)

Agricultural land nationalised

may 1959

Changes under Castro’s rule

he converted Cuba’s economy to socialism

Castro seized US-owned companies

October 1960

 Eisenhower suspends imports of Cuban sugar to the USA

july 1960

first shipment of Soviet weapons in Havana

sep 1960

Cuba distance from Florida

90 miles

assassination attempt at Castro with smuggled poisonous cigars sent from the CIA

16 aug 1960

bay of pigs incident(date)

17 April 1961

bay of pigs incident

1500 Cuban exiles trained by CIA to overthrow Castro but defeated

15 Jupiter nukes set up by USA in Turkey

28th Oct 1959

turkish launch site became operational

april 1962

Soviets proposed setting up nukes in Cuba to Castro

may 1962

Khrushchev told Kennedy no bases in Cuba

april 1961

Khrushchev told Kennedy only defensive equipment was given to Cuba

oct 1962