13 days - Cuban Missile Crisis (19h 6min, oct 1, 1962 y – 2h 58min, nov 21, 1962 y)
Description:
14- Spy planes discover missile sites in Cuba16 - JFK is informed of the missiles, sets up EXCOMM
18 - JFK meets with Sov. Foreign Minister Gromyko and advises him that America will not tolerate Soviet missiles in Cuba. Gromyko denies.
19 - JFK meets with McNamara to discuss military options
23 - Cuban naval blockade starts. DEFCON 3
24 - Sov ships reach quarantine line but stop
25 - Adlai Stevenson confront USSR at the UN but they refuse to answer. DEFCON 2
26 - First letter - Soviets remove middiles if President Kennedy publicly guarantees that he would not invade Cuba
27 - U2 Spy plane shot down over Cuba. 2nd letter
28 - crisis over. Krushchev announces Sov missiles would be dismantled and he did not insist on removing US missiles from Turkey
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Date:
19h 6min, oct 1, 1962 y
2h 58min, nov 21, 1962 y
~ 1 months and 21 days
