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During that time, tension rise to the top. Kennedy ordered low-level reconnaissance missions once every two hours but tensions finally began to ease on October 28 when Khrushchev announced that he would dismantle the installations and return the missiles to the Soviet Union, expressing his trust that the United States would not invade Cuba. Further negotiations were held to implement the October 28 agreement, including a United States demand that Soviet light bombers be removed from Cuba, and specifying the exact form and conditions of United States assurances not to invade Cuba.

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Kennedy, EXCOMM, and the CIA were involved on the side of Democracy, and the USSR and Cuba were involved on the side of communism.

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So Cuba can shoot them at us because Russia was to far away.

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Cuba is within firing range of the US. The communist dicatator is friendly to Russia's commnist dictator. The Russians used CUba to get back at the US for planting Warheads in Turkey.

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The Americans invaded cuba because they though that's where the biggest collection of nuclear weapons were being stored by russia during the cold war.

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In the Cuban Missile Crisis, the soviets had nuclear base on the island of Cuba, and was in the process of supplying it with more arms.

The USA surrounded the island with ships, and said to the USSR leader, if you cross our ships you will be shot.

so at first, the USSR responded to all ships to carry on course and it looked as if war was going to kick off, however about 500 yards away, at the last minute, all ships were told to halt, and the USSR tried to negotiate, however the USA simply ignored the 2nd negotiation, and pretended that it did not arrive, therefore they politically won this face off.

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The world had been at 'the brink of war' and both super powers (US and the Soviet Union) knew they had to improve relations and so Détente started. Détente is a French word meaning the easing of tension. During this period of time. the US and the Soviet Union attempted to improve relations to stop a anything like the Cuban Missiles Crisis happening again. They achieved this by setting up a telephone line between the White House in Washington DC and the Kremlin in Moscow. Also they began many negotiations and signed treaties such as the Non-Proliferation Treaty which banned countries from sharing nuclear know-how, The Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT) which cut the number of missiles the two super powers possessed and produced, and the Helsinki Agreement which forced the Soviet Union to provide some human rights for it people and 'satellite countries'. Détente came to an abrupt end in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

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It was in this Quarantine zone that the Essex Carrier Group was patrolling to prevent ships carrying Soviet missiles from reaching Cuba and also to prevent Soviet Submarines from passing by either.

we might have seen the beginnings of World War 3 there, as the Soviet Submarines which patrolled that area were loaded with nuclear-tipped torpedoes and the missiles which were located on Cuba were also short to medium range nuclear missiles. But even so, after a ridiculous amount of correspondence between the two superpowers, Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove his missiles from Cuba as long as JF Kennedy agreed to not invade Cuba. Agreeing to these terms Kennedy swore by everything holy not to invade, and Khrushchev did remove his missiles. The crisis was over.

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Two were established, an economic boycott in February of 1962 and the Missile Crisis to prevent the introduction of Soviet weapons in October of the same year.

While it is not completely perfect, I suggest seeing the Costner film (based on books about and tapes of the administration) titled Thirteen Days. It is the quickest way to get a good idea of the tension and the situation.

The blockade (quarantine) during the missile crisis was because Cuba was (viewed as) a pawn of the USSR and they placed rocket-powered nuclear warheads on Cuban soil aimed at the USA. The blockade was a compromise measure by the Kennedy administration between invading Cuba and thus setting off a likely nuclear exchange with the USSR due to treaties and (being seen to be) doing nothing and being an appeaser to the USSR. Bobby Kennedy worked very hard to handle the politics in the USA and to get buy-in from the cabinet and other stakeholders in the government to avoid military action. The Blockade prevented further buildup of offensive arms aimed at the USA in the western hemisphere and gave the USA and USSR time to negotiate and it gave the USSR time to dismantle the in-place missiles and to save face. Essentially it was a strategic response to an aggressive move by the USSR in the cold war.

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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.

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This is a crisis relating to, or dealing with existence.

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John F. Kennedy was the President in October, 1962 when the Russian ships carrying missiles turned by upon meeting the US blockage of Cuba.

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The answer might be found in the resolution of the crisis. During secret talks between Robert Kennedy and the Russian ambassador, an agreement was reached whereby the United States would remove it's Turkish based missiles pointed at Russia and the Russians would stop trying to put missiles in Cuba. Part of the agreement, however, was that the above actions would not be linked publicly and the United States would not be made to look like the instigator.

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Very poorly as the mission was a complete failure that would enrage the Fidel Castro and led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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One of the causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis was that the USSR was afraid that they have might have gotten hit by a missile first so they secretly hid a missile in Cuba. Another cause would be that and Nikita were afraid to lose Cuba in an invasion from the U.S.A, so they agreed to put missiles on their island because of protection. There were also many tensions with the USSR and the States with the peace program that Russia wanted to start. Then the U.S.A said that they would be tougher on Russia to end the Cold War. The USSR wanted all the power and so did the United States. Only one could have all of the power so the USSR acted first.

the reason the misil crisis started was because they were both scared of eachother!!!

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The invasion of the Bay Of Pigs was not an official U. S. government action, although there were elements of the government who were aware of the invasion, and had helped to prepare for it. During the early part of the 20th century, a great deal of money was invested in Cuba by U. S. interests, including Mafia families. Hotels, casinos, resorts, plantations, and other infrastructure was built to make Cuba a tourists paradise. However, the native people of Cuba were not allowed to reap the rewards of this investment, instead being treated nearly as slaves. This created a political environment that was ripe for revolution, and, in 1959, Fidel Castro led a popular revolt that threw out the American installed government led by Fulgencio Batista. Many Cubans with ties to the United States fled their homeland at that time, emigrating en masse to Florida. A group of Cubans who wanted to remove Castro from power approached the U. S. government seeking military intervention in Cuba, but could not find high officials willing to go against what had been a very popular uprising. However, certain members of the military were able to channel arms and other military equipment to a band of Cubans who also received the benefit of training by military personel. This private army went ashore at the Bay Of Pigs, only to encounter much stiffer resistance than they had anticipated. They contacted their friends in the American government, and requested that the American military launch airstrikes against the revolutionaries. This request was the first thing that President John F. Kennedy had heard of the counter-revoltution, and he denied the request. The counter-revolutionaries were soundly defeated, which they blamed entirely upon President Kennedy. There are those who believe that Kennedy's refusal to support the invasion was partially to blame for his assination, but there is no proof of this.

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No. In November, 1962, Cuba was being ruled by Fidel Castro, who led the the Marxist revolutionary overthrow of Cuba in 1959 with his "26th of July Movement" (MR-26-7). Cuba became a client state of the Soviet Union (Russia), and allowed them to build missile bases on the island. The Missile Crisis resulted from the potential for offensive nuclear missiles to be launched at the US from just 70 miles off its southern border. After a confrontation that nearly sparked a nuclear war, Russia dismantled the bases.

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The interpretation of EMG results is not a simple matter, requiring analysis of the onset, duration, amplitude, and other characteristics of the spike patterns.

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The Soviet Union was testing President Kennedy by having nuclear weapons only 90 miles from Florida. Kennedy reacted by placing a blockade around Cuba and forcing the Soviets to remove their bombs.