Cuban Missile Crisis
The Mahalo Top 7
- Official Site: Cuban Missile Crisis
- Wikipedia: Cuban Missile Crisis
- National Security Archive: Cuban Missile Crisis
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
- CNN: Brinksmanship: You Make the Call
- Article: Learning from the Missile Crisis
- Video: Kennedy's Cuban Missile Address (Time: 3:04)
Cuban Missile Crisis Background and Causes
- Wikipedia: Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Wikipedia: The Cuban Project (Operation Mongoose)
- National Security Agency: NSA and The Cuban Missile Crisis
- JFK Presidental Library: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Thinkquest: 14 Days In October: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- PBS: Online NewsHour: Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Virtual Archive Collection : Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cubacrisis.net: Cuban Missile Crisis
- Marxists.org: Cuban Missile Crisis from a Cuban perspective
Cuban Missile Crisis Central Figures
President John F. Kennedy
- Mahalo's Guide to John F. Kennedy
- Wikipedia: John F. Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy Presidental Library: John F. Kennedy
- White House: John F. Kennedy Biography
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
- Mahalo's Guide to Nikita Khrushchev
- Wikipedia: Nikita Khrushchev
- Thinkquest: Nikita Khrushchev profile
- Sparticus: Nikita Khrushchev
Premier Fidel Castro
- Mahalo's Guide to Fidel Castro
- Wikipedia: Fidel Castro
- Cuba.cu: Collection of Castro's speeches in six languages
- Marxist Internet Archive: Fidel Castro History Archive
Cuban Missile Crisis Images and Media
- YouTube: Kennedy address on Cuban Missile Crisis (Time 3:04)
- YouTube: Cuban Missile Crisis Part I (Time: 9:31)
- YouTube: Cuban Missile Crisis Part II (Time: 9:53)
- YouTube: Cuban Missile Crisis Newsreel (Time: 6:00)
- Library of Congress: Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis
- Wikipedia: U-2 image from Cuban Missile Crisis
- Federation of American Scientists: Cuban Missile Crisis
- American Rhetoric: Kennedy's speech to America
- History Out Loud: Audio from Kennedy and advisors during the crisis
- National Security Archive: Cuban Missile Crisis photos
- YouTube & Google Video: Cuban Missile Crisis Search
- Google Image Search: Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis Books and Research
- Amazon.com: Cuban Missile Crisis Books, DVDs
- Amazon.com: Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy
- Amazon.com: The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis by Sheldon Stern
- Amazon.com: Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis by Graham T. Allison
- Globalsecurity.org: Cuban Missile Crisis
- Plus Magazine: Game Theory and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Smithsonian.com: Learning from the Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis Blogs and Message Boards
- Google Blog Search: Cuban Missile Crisis
- The War Center Forums: What if Nixon was President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
- The Education Forum: Cuban Missile Crisis: How Serious Was It?
- Bruce Charles Johnson's Blog: Recalling The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline
- October 14, 1962: U-2 over western Cuba discovers missile sites and takes photographs.
- October 16, 1962: President Kennedy is told of the photos and calls a meeting whose body of members is later referred to as EXCOMM. Members discuss plans of action.
- October 17, 1962: The Joint Chiefs recommend an air strike. U-2 planes discover more missiles in Cuba.
- October 18, 1962: Kennedy and Andrei Gromyko meet. Gromyko insists the missiles are for defense of Cuba.
- October 20, 1962: Kennedy orders a "quarantine" of Cuba.
- October 21, 1962: U-2s discover missiles are assembled quickly and cruise missile sites are being built along the shore.
- October 22, 1962: Congressional leaders meet with Kennedy. The President addresses the nation. US Military goes to DEFCON 3. The US military base at Guantanamo Bay is reinforced with Marines.
- October 23, 1962: Khrushchev sends Kennedy a letter stating there is a serious threat to peace and security of peoples. Kennedy decides to give Khrushchev more time.
- October 24, 1962: US Military goes to DEFCON 2, the highest in military history.
- October 25, 1962: Kennedy sends a letter to Khrushchev laying the blame on Russia. EXCOMM discusses withdrawing missiles from Turkey in exchange for Russia withdrawing from Cuba.
- October 26, 1962: The CIA reports there is no halt in missile preparedness in Cuba. Khrushchev sends Kennedy a letter stating Russia will withdraw from Cuba is Kennedy announces publicly that the US will never invade Cuba.
- October 27, 1962: Khrushchev sends a letter to Kennedy proposing the Russian missiles in Cuba be traded for the US missiles in Turkey. A U-2 is shot down over Cuba, killing the pilot. Kennedy sends Khrushchev a letter stating that if Russian missiles withdraw from Cuba he will release a statement that the US will not invade Cuba.
- October 28, 1962: Khrushchev announces on Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba.
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