Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline 2 of 9 - Timeline Help

Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline 2 of 9 from January 1960 to September 1960 at Timeline Help.

- 1960

January January 12 January 21 January 28 - 29 February 7 February 13 February 18 February 29 March 3 March 4 March 8 March 17 April 4 May 17 June 7 June - July July 3 July 5 July 6 July 8 July 23 August 8 August 16 September September 17 September 19 September 26 September 28

Cuba expropriates land of U.S. sugar companies. The U.S. bombs Cuban oil refineries and the sugar cane fields. The U.S. attacks Havana, one of the first sabotage operations in the Cuban missile crisis timeline 2. U.S. air raids on Oriente and Camaguey regions. The U.S. destroys sugar mills in Camaguey. The Soviet Union and Fidel Castro sign a sugar, oil and financial trade agreement. One U.S. pilot is killed in an air raid on Matanzas. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles refuses to negotiate peace with Cuba. The U.S. attacks in Matanzas and Las Villas. More than 100 people are killed when an arms cargo boat is blown up in the harbor of Havana. U.S. air strike on Pinar del Rio. President Eisenhower approves the CIA plans to overthrow the Cuban government. Cuba expropriates all United Fruit company land. The U.S. bombs Oriente. This cat and mous play occurs many times in Cuban missile crisis timeline 2. U.S. propaganda Radio Swan starts its broadcasting to the people of Cuba. The U.S. government orders that western companies in Cuba may not sell oil to Cuba and may not refine any oil from the U.S.S.R. Cuba nationalizes Esso, Texaco,and Shell oil refineries. The U.S. Sugar Act against Cuba. Cuba nationalizes all U.S. commercial companies. President Eisenhower threats with military action against Cuba. Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev states he will protect Cuba against the U.S. China helps Cuba by buying hundreds of thousands of tons of sugar from Cuba. Cuba nationalizes all U.S. land properties. A CIA attempt to kill Fidel Castro fails. Cuban civilian militia defeat CIA led counterrevolutionary groups in Las Villas. Cuba nationalizes all U.S. banks in Cuba. Castro meets Malcolm X while he is in New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly opening session. Castro addresses the U.N. General Assembly. Assassination attempt at Revolution Plaza against Castro fails. Czechoslovakia sends military aid to Cuba.

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Bibliography of the Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline 2

Welch, D A (1998). Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis Cass Series Studies in Intelligence.
Kennedy, R F and Schlesinger Jr., A (1999). Thirteen Days. A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
May, E R and Zelikow, P and P (2002). The Kennedy Tapes. Inside the White House. Concise Edition.



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