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Cuban Missile Crisis (The moment during the Cold War when the USSR armed…
Cuban Missile Crisis
(The moment during the Cold War when the USSR armed Cuba with nuclear missiles)
Responses Considered
Do nothing
Diplomacy
Secret approach
Invastion
Air strike
Blockade
Crisis Ends
The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted just 13 days
ended on October 28, 1962
Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove missiles from Cuba
John F. Kennedy pledged to withdraw missiles from Turkey and not invade Cuba
Missile Maps
Photograph evidence of missile sites by U-2 reconnaissance planes
U.S. potential targets
Missile Sites
Government Leaders
leftist revolutionay leader Fidel Castro
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
U.S. President John F. Kennedy
U.S. Alert
"It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union." (Kennedy October 22)
October 22 Kennedy delivered a nationwide televised address
DEFCON 3 October 22
DEFCON 2 October 25
Stalemate, Secret Negotiations October 26
Negotiations via letters October 27
Successful negotiations October 28
