Cuba

Click the lanes or press Next change to see a moment.

Sources

1. BookBlood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World

Relations

location of:

• Bay of Pigs

  Sources: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, The Cold War: A New History

• Bejucal

  Sources: Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World

• Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

  Sources: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, “One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964

• Havana

  Sources: Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World

• Mariel

  Sources: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, “One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964

ally of:

• People's Movement for the Liberation of Angolasince 1975

  Sources: The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, The Cold War: A New History

host to:

• Ilyushin Il-281962 – 20 Nov 1962

  Sources: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, “One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964

• R-12 Dvinasince 1962

  Sources: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, “One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964

• S-75 Dvinasince 1962

  Sources: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, “One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964

led by:

• Fidel Castro1959 – 2008

  Sources: The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

withdrew troops from:

• Angola

  Sources: South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid, Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa’s Road to Change

Appears in34 items

• 
  Chess: From Chaturanga to AlphaZero1 item
  • Capablanca beats Lasker in HavanaApr 1921
• 
  Railways: From Stockton to the Shinkansen1 item
  • Havana to Bejucal: Latin America’s first railway19 Nov 1837
• 
  The Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition3 items
  • The illegal trade1808
  • 
    La Amistad2 Jul 1839
  • Cuba ends slavery7 Oct 1886
• 
  The Cold War3 items
  • 
    The Bay of Pigs17 Apr 1961
  • 
    The Cuban Missile Crisis22 Oct 1962
  • Angolan independence, and Cuban troops11 Nov 1975
• 
  The Cuban Missile Crisis24 items
  • The idea at Varna14 May 1962
  • The Presidium says yes24 May 1962
  • Operation Anadyr24 May 1962
  • A U-2 finds surface-to-air missiles29 Aug 1962
  • Kennedy draws a line4 Sep 1962
  • The first missiles land in Cuba8 Sep 1962
  • The warheads arrive on the Indigirka4 Oct 1962
  • 
    Heyser’s U-2 over San Cristóbal14 Oct 1962, 11:00
  • The thirteen days16 Oct 1962, 13:00
  • Kennedy chooses a blockade20 Oct 1962, 18:30
  • Kennedy tells the world22 Oct 1962, 23:00
  • The Organization of American States backs the quarantine23 Oct 1962
  • The Aleksandrovsk slips into La Isabela23 Oct 1962
  • 
    Kennedy signs the quarantine proclamation23 Oct 1962, 23:06
  • 
    The naval quarantine24 Oct 1962, 14:00
  • “Eyeball to eyeball”24 Oct 1962, 14:25
  • Khrushchev decides to back down25 Oct 1962
  • Khrushchev’s first letter26 Oct 1962, 22:00
  • Black Saturday27 Oct 1962, 04:00
  • 
    Major Anderson’s U-2 shot down27 Oct 1962, 15:00
  • Castro’s five points28 Oct 1962
  • 
    The missiles counted out at sea5 Nov 1962
  • The quarantine is lifted20 Nov 1962, 23:00
  • The tactical warheads go home22 Nov 1962
• 
  The End of Apartheid1 item
  • The New York accords22 Dec 1988
• 
  The US Presidency1 item
  • 
    John F. Kennedy20 Jan 1961