today we started working on our project. our topic is Cuban Missile Crisis. my group is Brittany, Alex, Haley and myself.
research:
- known as the October crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean crisis in the USSR — was a 14-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United State on the other, in October 1962.
- 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.
- The confrontation ended on October 28, 1962, when Kennedy and United Nations Secretary-General U Thant reached an agreement with Khrushchev.
- Withdrawal of the Soviet Union's nuclear missiles from Cuba.
- Withdrawal of certain United States' nuclear missiles from Turkey and Italy.
- Agreement with the Soviet Union that the United States would never invade Cuba without direct provocation.
- Creation of a nuclear hotline between the United States and the Soviet Union. Fidel Castro's position as Cuban leader strengthened.
- Prior to the crisis the United States had attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro and the current government of Cuba with the Bay of Pigs invasion.
- The invasion failed, but it served as a warning to Fidel Castro.
- Also, the United States had installed several nuclear missile sites in Turkey and Italy with the range to strike Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union.
- As a result, the Soviet Union felt they needed missile sites that could strike at the United States.
- At the same time the Cuban government wanted protection from the United States.
- They decided to work together and have the Soviet Union put nuclear missiles in Cuba that could strike most any portion of the USA.
- Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline.
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