Cuban+Missile+Crisis+-+Kauffman

__**// The Cuban Missile Crisis //**__



__**// WHO: //**__
 * President John F. Kennedy
 * United States
 * Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
 * Soviet Union

__ //** WHAT: **// __
 * The Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba.
 * President Kennedy and Khrushchev signed the first nuclear agreement of nuclear ages, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
 * Photos were taken of intermediate-range ballistic millile sites in Cuba.
 * President Kennedy faced a problem and had to analyze both sides of it.
 * If the U.S. attacked the sites in Cuba, then it might just lead to a nuclear war with the U.S.S.R.
 * If the U.S. didn't do anything about it, it might endure the threat of the nuclear weapons being launched from very close range.
 * Another option: Appear to the rest of the world as weak.
 * Kennedy negotiated and then ordered the soviets to remove all defensice material from cuba

//__ ** WHEN: ** __//
 * September 1962 - Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba
 * It all began on October 14, 1962 when an American U-2 CIA spy plane got photographs of an intermediate-range ballistic missile camp in Cuba which at the time was under construction.
 * The photos were then shown to kennedy on October 16, 1962.
 * Revealed to the public October 22

__//** WHERE: **//__
 * Cuba
 * Near San Cristobal
 * Mariel Port, Cuba

__ **// WHY: //** __
 * There was a nuclear war going on between the United States and the Soviet Union.
 * At the end, Kennedy and Khrushchev made an agreement
 * If soviets removed the missiles from cuba, then the U.S. had to remove their missiles from Turkey.
 * Kennedy was cautious about confronting the Soviet Union from that point on.

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