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The United States president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is John F Kennedy?
The start date of the 13-days Cuban Missile Crisis
What is October 16, 1962?
The goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion
What is overthrowing the Cuban leader Fidel Castro?
The date of Black Saturday
What is October 27th, 1962?
The Cuban leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Fidel Castro?
The end date of the 13-days Cuban Missile Crisis
What is October 28?
The outcome of the Bay of Pigs invasion
What is total military and political failure for the United States?
The significance of Black Saturday
What is the most dangerous day of the crisis and the closest the world has come to a nuclear war?
The Soviet Union leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
The vessel which photographed Soviet Union missile sites in Cuba, alerting the United States of their constuction
What is an American U-2 spy plane?
The year that the Bay of Pigs invasion occured
What is 1961?
The first major event of Black Saturday
What is the U-2 spy plane being shot down by Soviet missiles over Cuba?
The US Attorney General and close presidential advisor who negotiated in secret with Soviet Union ambassadors
Who is Robert F. Kennedy?
The October 22nd, 1962 event that broke the news of Soviet Union missiles being built in Cuba to the American public
What is John F Kennedy's speech?
The United States did this to their planes to keep their support secret
What is painted the B-26 bombers to look like stolen Cuban planes?
What is the Soviet B-59 submarine nearly launching a nuclear weapon at the US destroyer ship?
The United States secretary of defense and participant in crisis discussions
Who is Robert McNamara?
The most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis occuring on October 27th, 1962, where an American U-2 plane is shot down over Cuba, and a U.S. Navy destroyer drops depth charges on a Soviet submarine
What is "Black Saturday"?
The person whose presidency where the CIA campaign trained and equipped a guerrilla army of Cuban exiles
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
The third major event of Black Saturday
What is the U-2 spy plane accidentally flying into Soviet airspace?