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Kennedy and the defense officials me up to talk about the events that occur in Cuba. They try to decide on what type of attack on Cuba they should have.
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The United States military starts to move the military bases to the south eastern part of the United States.
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President Kennedy is visited by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. They talk about the weapons Cuba has and if they are getting any from the Soviet union.
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President Kennedy's advisers continue to debate on which actions should take place in result of the weapons that could harm American citizens.
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President Kennedy decides to deploy naval ships. He also begins to create an explanation to the American citizens and what his plan is of attack.
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President Kennedy learns that the airstrikes could not solve all their problems of taking out the Cuban missiles.
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President Kennedy speaks to former presidents that were alive at the time about the situation and his plan of action. He writes to Premier of the Soviet Union saying that starting a war with nuclear weapons would be catastrophic and lead to destroying the world.
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Naval fleet continue to go towards Cuba and Soviet union submarines began to attack American naval ships. Also the Soviet union continues to give aid and military weapons to Cuba.
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JFK concludes that if we invade in the next ten days, the missile base crews in Cuba will likely fire at least some of the missiles at US targets.
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U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson confronts the Soviets at the U.N. but they refuse to answer. American military forces are instructed to set DEFCON 2 - the highest ever in U.S. history.
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Khrushchev stating that the Soviets would remove their missiles if President Kennedy publicly guarantees the U.S. will not invade Cuba.
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A spy plane accidentally flies into Russia, another is shot down over Cuba. Also in addition to a public promise not to invade Cuba, the U.S. remove its missiles from Turkey.
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Khrushchev announces the dismantling of Soviet missiles in Cuba and does not insist on his demands concerning the removal of U.S. missiles from Turkey.