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Cuba is 'quarantined'
Pres. Kennedy blockades/quarantines Cuba by US Navy to prevent shipments of military supplies to the island. Using quarantine over blockade because blockade is known moreas an act of war -
American Public is informed of Cuban Missiles
US pres. Announces to public soviet uion is installing nuclear missiles in Cuba, Soviet union were caught off guard and American public prayed for no war. -
Khrushchev blows U.S. quarantine of Cuba as international law violation
Upon hearing of Kennedys speech in the U.S., Khrushchev blew the quarantine has an international law violation and said the missiles were for defensive purposesonly, to secure cuban republic from an agressors attack, threating to the U.S. that military agression to Cuba could lead to nuclear war. -
U.S.' military steps
American feared a nuclear war and put naval quarantine into effedt, Khrushchev ordered Soviet ships to quarantine line and threatened to sink any U.S. vessel that attempted to prevent passage to Cuba, U.S. government put nuclear forces on DEFCON2 alert for first and only time in history, bombers remained in air -
Soviet Ships en route to Cuba head back home
around a dozen soviet ships en route to Cuba turned back , preparations at the missile sites on Island accelerated . Cubans and Soviets worked 24/7 to make the missiles operational. -
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Letters to Kennedy via Khrushchev
First was the emotional appeal,to avoid a war
second took a much more hardline position, insisting that the United States remove its nuclear missiles from Turkey in return for a withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. Kennedy found the demands contained in the second letter unacceptable for two reasons. First, Turkey was not willing to have the Jupiter missiles removed. Turkey and other U.S. allies on the Mediterranean counted on U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles to deter an attack by the Sovi -
Soviet forces shoot down US info exploration flight over Cuba,
Soviet forces shoot down US info exploration flight over Cuba, they ended up killing the pilot, Mjr. Rudolf Anderson, day before, castro ordered Cuban air defense forces to fire on any US aircraft within range.Excomm recieved reports that missiles in Cuba were about to become operational.