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Cuban Missile Crisis

Published on Mar 16, 2016

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Missile Crisis

October 1962
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main players

  • Nikita Khrushchev- Soviet Union
  • John F. Kennedy- US
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Khrushchev

  • Soviet leader
  • Level the playing field
  • increasing nuclear strike capability
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Stand Off

  • Lasted 13 days
  • missiles 90 mi from US shores
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Options

  • Invade Cuba
  • Blockade with ultimtum
  • Kennedy decides Ultimatum
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DEAL

  • Remove Cuban missiles in exchange for US not to invade.
  • Dismantle missiles in Cuba, US removes from Turkey.
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