Cuban Missle Crisis (16 ottob 1962 anni – 28 ottob 1962 anni)

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Soviets were bilding bases for IRBMs - spying
US imposed a "quarantine" or blockade
Kennedy pledged not to invade Cuba
Khrushchev promised to dismantle the bases - US also secretly removed bombs from Turkey
came so close to the edge

ICBMs
people said JFK was an appeaser like his dad
"eyeball to eyeball"
all but one soviet ship turned around but US followed it and talked to it and it eventually turned around
eyeball to eyeball, but the other fellow just blinked
Kennedy and Khrushchev dialogue
Khrushchev had changed his mind after the agreement and sent JFK a hostile message the next day but JFK ignored it
no nuclear war
possibility of nuclear war was sobering
"Hot line"
Khrushchev out in 2 years
JFK emerged as strong leader

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