The Soviets and Cubans agreed to take away the missiles if America promised not to attack Cuba.

As the group set off to attack Cuba, Kennedy grew nervous.

In 1961 the Americans helped some of these Cubans to attack Cuba and remove Castro, but they failed.

We reply, "Give us a firm guarantee, a promise that the Americans will not attack Cuba."

They, the Americans, threaten an economic blockade, but the U.S.A. will not attack Cuba.

The United States considered attacking Cuba via air and sea, but decided on a military blockade instead, calling it a "quarantine" for legal and other reasons.

Kennedy concluded that attacking Cuba by air would signal the Soviets to presume "a clear line" to conquer Berlin.

To attack Cuba, the British recruited soldiers from New York, and reduced the number of troops normally kept there.

Other diplomats said that the Chinese, reluctant to attack Cuba, were stalling to give the Cubans a chance to have their say.

At the end of May 1741, the British forces in the Caribbean decided to attack Cuba.