today we continued our presentations.
Cuban Missle Crisis
-The United States started to build missle bases in Turkey and Italy.
-The Cuban Missle crisis was between the Soviet Union, Cuba, against the U.S.A.
-they didnt want to start a nuclear war, and put up blockades.
-the U.S demanded that the Soviet Union disarmed their bases in Cuba...or else....
-the Cubans didnt want the U.S to invade and start bombing.
-this happened in October, 1962.
-the United States was ready to attack Cuba, if they did something wrong.
-one wrong move could start a Nuclear War.
-during the crisis their were many communications exchanges between the 2 countries.
-October 15=images revealed
-October 16= JFK was informed.
-October 28=Cuba dis-assembled the bases, which ended the crisis.
Initiative-
-Critics thought this wouldn't work
-Weapons needed for the plan required nuclear X ray, lasers, and projectiles.
-we planned on intercept these.
-Research was happening and money was being raised to pay for this research.
-this plan failed
-Money was wasted because of all this research that we did.
-today yes, we do have this. (lasers)
-technology and research is still going on today.
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