With the news of this confirmed evidence, President Kennedy called together a special group of senior advisers to meet secretly at the White House to help him come to a strategy as to avoid nuclear destruction of the United States. At this point in time, at the Cuban missile base, the Soviets were capable of hitting any city in the United States sans the far reaches of Washington state. This group created by Kennedy came to be known as the ExComm, or Executive Committee of the National Security Council. These officials discussed the various options, such as an immediate bombing strike or an appeal to the United Nations, both of which were dismissed early on. The real options for ExComm were only military- either a naval blockade and an ultimatum, or a full-scale invasion. The blockade was eventually chosen, even though a few of the officials of ExComm, notably Paul Nitze and Generals Curtis LeMay and Maxwell Tayler, pushed for more aggressive actions.
In the end, it came down to the wire. Soviet ships threatened to break the blockade and, at the last moment, turned back. The Soviets removed the missiles- under the condition that the US removed their own missiles from Turkey. President Kennedy ordered an end to the quarantine of Cuba on November 20th.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a conflict primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union. This crisis was brought on after the Soviets placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, which is very close to the United States. This is considered a crisis because the missiles placed in Cuba were dangerous since they could have easily been launched at the United States, hence starting the world's first nuclear war.
The missiles where in Cuba, placed there by the Soviet Union. President Kennedy wanted them gone, too close for comfort. Missiles were removed.
It was between the US and Cuba it was feared that Cuba had missles that were aimed and ready to be launched at America.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world has ever been to WW3 and a nuclear war. It happened in 1962 when the Soviet Union discovered U.S. Jupiter Nuclear Missiles in Turkey, which was closer to Moscow than the Soviet's comfort. In retaliation, the Soviets began to build nuclear missiles silos in Cuba, which is awfully close to Washington D.C. and the C.I.A. found out about this and President Kennedy issued a navel blockade of Cuba, preventing the nukes from reaching Cuba. And at the point when the Soviet ships discovered this, the tensest staring contest of the 20th century started; between the U.S. Navy and the Soviet Navy.
The Soviets were ordered to wait until further orders and the U.S. Navy were ordered to obliterate anything that tried to cross their line. If the Soviets continued or if they didn't get their order in time, the world would've been a VERY different place today. During the stand off, both the Soviet Union and America prepared to go to total war with the other, whilst Soviet Premier Kruschev and President Kennedy had intense negotiations to advert a nuclear catastrophe and about two weeks later, a agreement was met. The Soviets agreed to dismantle their silos in Cuba and turn their ships around in exchange that the U.S. dismantle her Jupiter Missile System in Turkey and diplomacy prevailed. The Crisis really altered the coarse of the Cold War and helped to slow it down (given that both powers felt the gravity of what they were doing) and it put a hotline between the President and Premier in case another crisis were to emerge.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the closest the USA and Soviet Union ever came to nuclear war. A US spy plane took photographs of Russian missiles in Cuba. Cuba is 90 miles off the coast of Florida. President Kennedy told Nikita Krushchev, the Russian Prime Minister to remove the missiles. Krushchev refused to do so. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba - nothing in or out. In response, The Soviet Navy headed towards Cuba to take on the US Navy. Kennedy left the blockade in place,. Krushchev backed down and had the Soviet ships return to the Soviet Union. Dean Rusk, the American Secretary of State stated"We are eyeball to eyeball with the enemy and he just blinked." The way Kennedy handled this crisis led historians to believe it was Kennedy's finest hour. The Soviets removed the missiles from Cuba and as a show of good faith, Kennedy had American missiles removed from Turkey.
It was a crisis because it almost led to a nuclear WWIII, which would basically mean the end of life on the planet, as both sides had nukes. It was the closest the Doomsday Clock has ever been to midnight.
The Soviets placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. They had to be removed. We moved military forces towards Cuba with the intent to destroy them. The Soviets removed them.
The Cuban missile crisis started on October 16, 1962
The missile crisis
Soviets were establishing nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
President Kennedy is credited with resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis.President John F. Kennedy
The country that faced the missile crisis was the United States.
The Cuban missile crisis started on October 16, 1962
The missile crisis
Soviets were establishing nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
Cuban missile crisis, because it almost killed us.
President Kennedy is credited with resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis.President John F. Kennedy
the U.S.
No. The "documentary" was parodying the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
The country that faced the missile crisis was the United States.
No, no one "fought" in the Cuban missile crisis. He was an Assistant Secretary of State at the time.
The Cuban Missle Crisis was done in 1984
John F Kennedy was the president of the US at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Cuban Missile Crisis