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"We went eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked"
American's supported a corrupt regime under Fulgencio Batista until the Cuban Revolution in 1959
FIdel Castro took over
Aligned with the Soviets
The Bay of Pigs (Failed invasion of Cuba)
1962 Soviets began to put nuclear weapons into Cuba (Noticed by U2 spy planes)
The US had 3 options:
Diplomatic solution (negotiated settlement)
A conventional attack (air attack followed by invasion)
A naval blockade
Robert Kennedy, attorney general convinced Security Council to go with blockade
Ships turn around at the quarantine
2 letters sent from Khrushchev to Kennedy (By proxy from a Soviet friend of Kennedy)
Brinkmanship ensues (U.N. gets involved)
Russians pull out of Cuba in exchange for a removal of missiles in Turkey at a later date
Directly resulted in the Partial Test ban Treaty of 1962
The Hot Line, a phone directly from the President, to the secretary of Khrushchev
American's supported a corrupt regime under Fulgencio Batista until the Cuban Revolution in 1959
FIdel Castro took over
Aligned with the Soviets
The Bay of Pigs (Failed invasion of Cuba)
1962 Soviets began to put nuclear weapons into Cuba (Noticed by U2 spy planes)
The US had 3 options:
Diplomatic solution (negotiated settlement)
A conventional attack (air attack followed by invasion)
A naval blockade
Robert Kennedy, attorney general convinced Security Council to go with blockade
Ships turn around at the quarantine
2 letters sent from Khrushchev to Kennedy (By proxy from a Soviet friend of Kennedy)
Brinkmanship ensues (U.N. gets involved)
Russians pull out of Cuba in exchange for a removal of missiles in Turkey at a later date
Directly resulted in the Partial Test ban Treaty of 1962
The Hot Line, a phone directly from the President, to the secretary of Khrushchev