AIM: What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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AIM What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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The Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962

• Bay of Pigs!??!?
• USSR weapons to Cuba- including nukes! - MRBM
• 10/16 U-2 sees missile launch pads 13 days
  begins
• 2 options Navel Blockade or Air strikes
• EXCOMM

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The Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962

• 10/22 Public Address JFK warns USSR
• missile attack war
• Ships position for Quarantine!
• 10/24 USSR ships slow
• 10/28 USSR avoids confrontation at sea- reach
  agreement with U.S.
• USA no invading Cuba
• USSR dismantle missile site in Cuba
• SecretUSA remove missiles from Turkey

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Results A Warming trend.

• Hot line established
• New Limit on Nuclear tests
• Khrushchevs prestige damaged in USSR
• JFK criticized for brinkmanship not ousting
  Castro
• Cuban exiles - GOP Castro bans flights to and
  from Miami

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