the Cuban Missile Crisis
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- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- it was a conflict between the U.S. the Soviet Union, and Cuba.
- In 1962
- After the failed bay of pigs innovation in 1961 by the Kennedy Administration.
- Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev reached a secret agreement with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro to place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to stop any further U.S aggression.
- On October 27 a spy plane piloted by Major Rudolph Andreson was shot down by a Soviet missile.
- Attorney General Robert Kennedy secretly met with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin.
- After negotiation, they reached the following proposal.
- After the meeting had concluded, Dobrynin cabled Moscow saying time is of the essence and we shouldn’t miss the chance.
- The U.S would remove its missiles from Turkey and Italy and promise to never invade Cuba, in exchange for the Soviet withdrawal from Cuba under U.N. inspection.
- At 9 a.m the next day, a message arrived from Khrushchev saying that the Soviet missiles would be removed from Cuba.
- The crisis was now over.
- There was a slight communication error or split-second decision by a commander, could have thwarted all their efforts, as it nearly did if not for Vasil Arkhipovs courageous choice.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis revealed just how fragile human politics are compared to the terrifying power they can unleash.
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