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​​​ The Cuban Missile Crisis

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-The Cuban Missle Crisis lasted 13 days! -The Soviet Union was unable to shoot long ranged missles so they decided to move short ranged missles into Cuba. -Cuban leader Fidel Castro agreed to let Nikita Khrushchev move soviet missles into Cuba because he was trying to find a way to protect Cuba from an invasion from the U.S. -The crisis began for America on October 15, 1962 when renissance photographs revealed missles being instaled in cuba -John F. Kennedy organized the **__EX-COMM-__** twelve of Kennedy's most important advisors to help him figure out how to handle the crisis. -The U.S. sent in planes to take pictures of the sights, and if the planes were shot at we were going to invade Cuba. The planes were indeed shot at but the piliots said they weren't to ensure no invasion would happen. -Many of his advisors believed that the best thing to do was to attack but J.F.K. didn't think that was the best approach. -They finally decided that they would put a blockade around Cuba to quarantine them. -The blockade forced Soviet ships to remove all weapons and if they refused they would be toed back to the docks. -The crisis was finally over when Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove all Soviet missle instalments out of Cuba if the United States agreed not to invade Cuba.