The Cuban missile crisis
The closest we've come to a nuclear war
The Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was a fourteen day crisis of the people in America.This was the closest we had ever come to a nuclear war.Cuba even got blockaded so nothing would come in,That could be harmful.President Kennedy even put out a television add saying that the Soviet Union has missiles in Cuba.We were ready for cuba to attack and said we would retaliate.
What happened to Cuba?
"In 1962 Khrushchev decided to send secretly three MRBM and two IRBM regiments to Cuba"(swift).
Was Kennedy ok with this?
What did America do?
What did it do?
What was the cause?
How did it last?
Fun Facts
2."He dismissed soviet foreign minister andrie gromyko's claim that the weapons in Cuba were purely defensive nature as "false"(history.com staff).
3."Kennedy also issued a warning to the soviets that the United States would retaliate against them if there was a nuclear attack from Cuba"(history.com staff).
4."The world was now poised at the brink of a nuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union"(history.com staff).
5."harking the efforts to contain German,Italian,and Japanese aggression"(history.com staff).
Bibliography
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"Cuban Missile Crisis." Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK Library, n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2016.
Gow, Catherine Hester. The Cuban Missile Crisis. San Diego,California: Lucent, 1997. Print.
History.com Staff. "Kennedy Announces Blockade of Cuba during Missile Crisis." History.com. A+E Publisher, n.d. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.
Swift, John. "The Cuban Missile Crisis." History Today. History Today LTD, 2016. Web. 11 Jan. 2016.