Cuban Missile Crisis Comic Strip
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- The Cuban Missile Crisis was among the scariest events of the Cold War. The 13-day showdown brought the world’s two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.
- I don't want to be on a brink of a nuclear war.
- In the Fall of 1962 the United States demanded that the Soviets halt construction of newly-discovered missile bases in communist Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
- we should stop construction of missiles for a little bit.
- During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
- Charge!
- charge!
- Soviet premierNikita Khrushchev had pledged in 1960 to defend Cuba and had assumed that the United States would not try and prevent the installation of medium- and intermediate-rangeballisticmissiles in the communist Caribbean country. But the weapons could potentially reach much of the United States.
- I will defend cuba.
- Nikita Khrushchev
- What followed was a tense standoff played out almost exclusively at the highest levels. U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev and a handful of their top aides did all the negotiating, with little input from the foreign policy bureaucracies of either country.
- gulity!!!!!
- John F. kennedy
- I'm not guilty
- 3 2 1
- The crisis was rife with miscommunications, threats and miscalculations, but was ultimately diffused.
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