Cuban Missile Crisis
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- Thank you. I am Fidel Castro a revolutionary leader in Cuba.
- May 1960, Nikita Krushchev takes steps to install ballistic missiles in Cuba
- Here have some missiles since you are a communist. I am Nikita Krusheva.
- October 22, 1962
- We are putting Cuba under naval quarantine to prevent soviet shipments
- President J.F.K puts Cuba under quarantine to prevent Soviet missile shipments.
- In the following days
- Soviet ships altered course away from Cuba to keep from being seized.
- We are passing secret messages to try and avoid nuclear war.
- After these discussions we will remove weapons from Cuba to prevent nuclear war.
- October 28th
- To prevent Mutually Assured Destruction, the U.S. secretly made a promise to take nuclear weapons out of turkey. After they had been put in a few years before.
- I unofficially promised to take missiles out of turkey in order to maintain peace, and prevent MAD.
- We also promised not to take control of Cuba in the future.
- Cuba was infuriated that the Soviet union gave in but couldn't do anything. This defeat was a factor in Krushchev's fall from power in 1964.
- I am infuriated that the Soviet Union for giving in to the U.S. ultimatum. However I am powerless to act.
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