My epic padlet by Alayna Hoffman https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb Alayna Hoffman and Angela Marcucilli en-us 2021-03-17 11:39:42 UTC 2025-11-07 18:59:30 UTC hello@padlet.com Early 1961 amarcucilli22 https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320074841 -Kennedy fears Castros uprising in Cuba and saw it as a threat to the US and other Latin-American countries.
-CIA begins training group of Cuba exiles to aid the US in overthrowing Castros rule. 
 ]]> 2021-03-17 11:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320074841 April 17,1961 ahoffman222 https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320078652 - 2000 armed exiles land at Bay of Pigs in Cuba. 
- CIA requests that American planes cover the invading force 

]]> 2021-03-17 11:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320078652 April 19, 1961 ahoffman222 https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320085861 - The mission of the Bay of Pigs had collapsed in nearly two days. 
- Kennedy takes full responsibility for his actions in this matter. ]]> 2021-03-17 11:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320085861 June 1961 amarcucilli22 https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320087766 -Kennedy's first meeting with Soviet Union after the failure at Bay of Pigs
-Little happened to ease tensions, and both realized the other's urge to take down the other. ]]> 2021-03-17 11:45:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320087766 Summer of 1961 ahoffman222 https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320094290 -The focus for Khrushchev was Berlin and he would threaten war if the West did not abandon defense in Berlin. ]]> 2021-03-17 11:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320094290 August 13 1961 amarcucilli22 https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320098183 -Soviet Union instructs East Germany to build a wall between East and West Berlin.
-Berlin wall was created and anyone who tired to escape would be shot. ]]> 2021-03-17 11:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320098183 October 14 1961 amarcucilli22 https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320105714 -US becomes aware of new Soviet military power in Cuba.
-US takes clear photos to prove the Soviet Union was building sites in Cuba for nuclear weapons. 
-Kennedy saw weapons as a sign of aggression, and Soviet saw them as a counteract to Turkey.  ]]> 2021-03-17 11:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320105714 October 22, 1961 ahoffman222 https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320109456 - Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade over. Cuba to protect them from all offensive weapons. 
- Soviet ships arriving to Cuba would slow down or turn around to avoid all types of confrontation. 
- Though on October 26, JFK received a message from the Soviet Union saying that they would remove their missile bases in exchange for our word to not invade Cuba and remove our missiles from Turkey. 
-Height of Cuban Missile Crisis: closest to actual Cold War. ]]> 2021-03-17 11:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320109456 June 1963 amarcucilli22 https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320118627 -Kennedy spoke of a "peaceful rapprochement" with Soviet Union 
-Soviet Union and US signs agreement to stop testing nuclear weapons. 
-de-escalates arms race for first time. ]]> 2021-03-17 11:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320118627 Following the Cuban Missile Crisis ahoffman222 https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320127695 - Khrushchev would lose his power in the following year and would be replaced by Brezhnev. ]]> 2021-03-17 11:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoffman222/arjj9dzoun3hvigb/wish/1320127695