Cuban Missile Crisis
- we started to build missile bases in Turkey and Italy, which could attack the capitol of the Soviet Union
- soviet union and cuban government responding by building missile bases
- we reacted when images of missile bases emerged
- JFK then fomred a group of people that handled the situation at hand
- he decided to form a naval blockade around the island of Cuba
- US demanded that Soviet Union dismantle the bases in exchange of the US agreeing to not invade Cuba
- the crisis subsided with the US and USSR getting rid of the bases in the problem areas
- we attempted to invade Cuba in 1961 but we failed
- Fidel Castro was confident that the US would attempt a second attack
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