Cuban Missile Crisis
Explore Cuban Missile Crisis on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Kennedy announces the naval quarantine of Cuba (1962)
- Khrushchev announces Soviet withdrawal from Cuba (1962)
- Vasily Arkhipov blocks a nuclear torpedo launch (1962)
- American U-2 shot down over Cuba (1962)
- Kennedy learns of the Soviet missiles in Cuba (1962)
- U-2 photographs reveal Soviet missiles in Cuba (1962)
- Soviet ships stop at the quarantine line (1962)
- Robert Kennedy's secret Cuba–Turkey missile deal (1962)
- Khrushchev's secret offer to withdraw from Cuba (1962)
- Khrushchev demands a Cuba–Turkey missile trade (1962)
- Operation Anadyr (Soviet sealift to Cuba) (1962)
- Khrushchev resolves to send missiles to Cuba (1962)
- Kennedy chooses a blockade of Cuba (1962)
- Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
- Kennedy's 'Trollope ploy' reply to Khrushchev (1962)
- First Soviet nuclear missiles reach Cuba (1962)
- Stevenson shows the missile photographs at the UN (1962)
- Castro urges a Soviet nuclear first strike (1962)
- Cuban Revolution (1959)
- Gromyko denies Soviet missiles are in Cuba (1962)
- Operation Mongoose (1961)
- Kennedy warns Moscow against missiles in Cuba (1962)
- Kennedy lifts the quarantine of Cuba (1962)
- US Jupiter missiles arrive in Turkey (1961)
- US Navy boards the freighter Marucla (1962)
- Soviet missiles are shipped out of Cuba (1962)
- The OAS backs the quarantine of Cuba (1962)
- The Moscow–Washington hotline opens (1963)
- Cuban embargo by the US (1962)