1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline 7 of 9 - Timeline Help

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- 1962

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Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin tells Attorney General Robert Kennedy that the U.S.S.R. is not deploying surface-to-surface missiles in Cuba. White House press statement: President Kennedy express his concern about Soviet arms transportations to Cuba, the U.S. does not tolerate offensive weapons in Cuba. The Tactical Air Command prepares plans for a U.S. air attack against Cuba. NATO ends financial help for Cuba. Cuban exile group Alpha 66 attacks Cuban and British ships. Soviet Secretary of State Andrei Gromyko warns that a U.S. attack on Cuba could mean war. This historical milestone in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis timeline shows what could happen, and happens a month later. President Kennedy says that the statements of Prime Minister Castro of a U.S. invasion are efforts to bolster the Cuban regime. Soviet cargo boat Poltava brings in SS-4 MRBM missiles for the first missile location near San Cristobal. Cuban reports an increasing number of violations of air space by the U.S. U.S. Senate agrees with using military force against Cuba. House of Representatives approves a bill to stop aid to nations who allows shipping goods to Cuba. Andrei Gromyko accuses the U.S. of war hysteria and he states that the U.S.S.R. will defend Cuba. Again in this 1962 Cuban missile crisis timeline The Soviet Union emphasizes its alliance with Fidel Castro. U.S. Congress grants the President permission for a military intervention if Cuba utter threats against the U.S. U.S. intelligence discover the transport of Soviet IL-28 light bomber planes. CIA agents arrested in Cuba. U.S. Air Force gets plans for air strikes to support landing troops. U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force commanders-in-chief are orderded to prepare for an invasion of Cuba. U.S. tightens the embargo against Cuba on ship and air transportation of arms and aid supplies. Defense Secretary McNamara makes an inventory of any situation in which military action against Cuba will follow. The U.S. urges Latin American countries to isolate Cuba. President Kennedy prioritizes the sabotage actions of Operation Mongoose. Defense Secretary McNamara orders his Joint Chiefs of Staff to enroll the first phase of plans for an invasion. Many meetings and discussions will follow in the next pages of this 1962 Cuban missile crisis timeline about tactical war fare plans. Cuban President Dorticos qualifies the tightening of the ship embargo as an act of war, in an address to the U.N. General Assembly. Great Britain approves a U.S. call for military aid at Mayaguana, Bahamas. A U-2 reconnaissance flight over Cuba is delayed because of bad weather. Republican Senator Kenneth Keating states that IRBM - Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile - sites are being set up in Cuba.

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Bibliography of 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline

Clinton, S (1994). Cornerstones of Freedom.
Scott, L (1999). Macmillan, Kennedy and the Political, Military and Intelligence Aspects. Contemporary History in Context.
Gonzalez, S (2002). Nuclear Deception. Nikita Khrushchev.



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