Explore the time line below to learn more about the Cuban Missile Crisis:
Nuclear-tipped Missiles in Turkey
1959–1961
Khrushchev and Castro
1962
U-2 Aerial Reconnaissance
October 15, 1962
Defense Meetings
October 16, 1962
EXCOMM
October 20, 1962
A Blockade is Planned
October 22, 1962
Warning Shots Fired
October 23, 1962
U.S. Reconnaissance Plane Shot Down
October 25, 1962
A Deal is Struck
October 27, 1962
Retreat
October 28, 1962
