<Table> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Cuban Missile Crisis </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Part of the Cold War </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Td> October 16 -- 28 , 1962 ( naval blockade of Cuba ended November 20 ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Cuba </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Result </Th> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Withdrawal of the Soviet Union 's nuclear missiles from Cuba </Li> <Li> Withdrawal of American nuclear missiles from Turkey and Italy </Li> <Li> Agreement with the Soviet Union that the United States would never invade Cuba without direct provocation </Li> <Li> Creation of a nuclear hotline between the United States and the Soviet Union </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Belligerents </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Soviet Union Cuba Supported by : Warsaw Pact </Td> <Td> United States Italy Turkey Supported by : NATO </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Commanders and leaders </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Nikita Khrushchev </Li> <Li> Anastas Mikoyan </Li> <Li> Rodion Malinovsky </Li> <Li> Issa Pliyev </Li> <Li> Georgy Abashvili </Li> <Li> Fidel Castro </Li> <Li> Raúl Castro </Li> <Li> Che Guevara </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> John F. Kennedy </Li> <Li> Robert McNamara </Li> <Li> Maxwell D. Taylor </Li> <Li> Curtis LeMay </Li> <Li> George Whelan Anderson Jr . </Li> <Li> Robert F. Kennedy </Li> <Li> Amintore Fanfani </Li> <Li> Giulio Andreotti </Li> <Li> Cemal Gürsel </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Casualties and losses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 64 Soviet citizens dead ( statistics of the MoD of the RF for 1962 -- 1964 ) </Td> <Td> 1 U-2 spy aircraft lost 1 aircraft damaged 1 killed </Td> </Tr> </Table>
<Table> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Cuban Missile Crisis </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Part of the Cold War </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Td> October 16 -- 28 , 1962 ( naval blockade of Cuba ended November 20 ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Cuba </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Result </Th> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Withdrawal of the Soviet Union 's nuclear missiles from Cuba </Li> <Li> Withdrawal of American nuclear missiles from Turkey and Italy </Li> <Li> Agreement with the Soviet Union that the United States would never invade Cuba without direct provocation </Li> <Li> Creation of a nuclear hotline between the United States and the Soviet Union </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Belligerents </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Soviet Union Cuba Supported by : Warsaw Pact </Td> <Td> United States Italy Turkey Supported by : NATO </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Commanders and leaders </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Nikita Khrushchev </Li> <Li> Anastas Mikoyan </Li> <Li> Rodion Malinovsky </Li> <Li> Issa Pliyev </Li> <Li> Georgy Abashvili </Li> <Li> Fidel Castro </Li> <Li> Raúl Castro </Li> <Li> Che Guevara </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> John F. Kennedy </Li> <Li> Robert McNamara </Li> <Li> Maxwell D. Taylor </Li> <Li> Curtis LeMay </Li> <Li> George Whelan Anderson Jr . </Li> <Li> Robert F. Kennedy </Li> <Li> Amintore Fanfani </Li> <Li> Giulio Andreotti </Li> <Li> Cemal Gürsel </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Casualties and losses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 64 Soviet citizens dead ( statistics of the MoD of the RF for 1962 -- 1964 ) </Td> <Td> 1 U-2 spy aircraft lost 1 aircraft damaged 1 killed </Td> </Tr> </Table>
when did the cuban missile crisis take place
when did the cuban missile crisis take place
October 16 -- 28 , 1962
October 16 -- 28 , 1962