Good evening, my fellow citizens. We have found out that Soviets have missiles placed in Cuba. We have taken this as a very serious threat.
I have directed that blockade over Cuba be taken immediately in order to halt this offensive build up
Pres. Kennedy threatened to start nuclear war ()f the missiles had not been removed from Cuba
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For a long time, United States and USSR were in a stand off which was the postion of the Cold War
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Kennedy tells Diefenbaker that he has to put Canada in a high alert status for defense but Diefenbaker refuses, which puts Canada at a higher risk. He also did not permit nuclear tips in the missiles.
Kennedy meets with Canada's Prime Minister Diefenbaker
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Today in class we will be learning about air raid drills going on.
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Canada's fighter jet project "Avro Arrow" was also put on paused and cancelled later because nuclear bombs were a bigger necessity
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Mr. Khrushchev. We have come up with an offer,here it is; You will remove all your missiles from Cuba, in return, we will be removing our misiles from Turkey.