Cuban Missile Crisis
Kuvakäsikirjoitus Teksti
- 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 the U.S shores
- U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev and a handful of their top aidesdid all the negotiating, with little input from the foreign policy bureaucracies of either country. The crisis was rife with miscommunications, threats and miscalculations, but was ultimately diffused
- October 16: President John F. Kennedy meets with a team of advisers known as Ex-Comm, to discuss how to respond to the missile threat.
- October 22: In a dramatic 18-minute television speech, JFK shocks Americans by revealing “unmistakable evidence” of the missile threat,
- October 26: Castro sends aletterto Khrushchev, urging him to launch a nuclear first strike against the United States, which the Soviet leader disregards.
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- October 27: U.S. U-2 pilotMaj. Rudolf Andersonis was shot down and killed over Cuba.
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