Cuban Missile Crisis

We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think
the other fellow just blinked.

This is the closest we ever came to all out nuclear war

The US Put missiles in Turkey

The USSR responded by putting missiles in Cuba in 1962

Range of the Missles

"The most terrifying moment in my life was october 1962, during the cuban missle crisis."

What do you do?

• you are president kennedy
• there are missiles in cuba

Quarantine (Blockade) around Cuba to prevent any further missiles from being added to the country. Instead of stronger military action.

Kennedy also seeks to get in contact with the USSR

What do you do?

• You are Kruschev the leader of the soviet union.
• America has put a blockade around Cuba.

The Soviet Union decided to challenge America. They sent soviet ships toward Cuba that would meet the American Navy head on.

America is in a state of panic

America would remove its missiles in Turkey, and the Soviets would remove their missiles from Cuba.

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