Cuban Missile Crisis
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- 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 (with the missile U.S had in Turkey) if the missiles had not been removed from Cuba
- For a long time, United States and USSR were in a stand off which was the continuation of the Cold War
- Kennedy meets with Canada's Prime Minister Diefenbaker
- 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.
- Meanwhile in Canada...
- Good morning, class. Today we will be learning about air raid drills
- Canada's fighter jet project "Avro Arrow" was also put on paused and cancelled later because nuclear bombs were a bigger necessity
- Hello, 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 missiles from Turkey.
- I would be agreeing with that.
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