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Blockade
President Kennedy decided to put out a blockade of Cuba by the U.S. Navy to prevent any more shipments of military supplies to the island -
Speech and Soldiers
President Kennedy televised a speech to the whole U.S. about the soviets sending nuclear bombs to Cuba and how the United States of America were blockading Cuba. Castro ordered 270,000 soldiers on mobilization. -
International Law
the leader of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev declared that the U.S. was violating international law and kept the bombs on the island after Kennedy’s speech -
DEAFCON 2
Khrushchev ordered Soviet ships to race past the quarantine line and threatened to blow up any American ships if they interfered, also that day the U.S. went on DEAFCON 2 for all nuclear forces. -
Bombs
A dozen of Soviet Union ships went back home, and both Cuba and the Soviet Union tried their hardest to make the bombs operational. -
American plane
Castro ordered Cuba forces to shoot down any American planes that flew in range also Khrushchev send Kennedy a letter to avoid the nuclear war, the deal was to let the Soviet Union take out nukes from Cuba if the Americans pledged to not invade the island. -
ExComm and letters
Soviet forces shot down an American plane which ended up killing the pilot. And ExComm found out that the missiles were about to become operational. Another letter was sent to Kennedy from Khrushchev for the Americans take their missiles from turkey and in return they would take missiles from Cuba. Kennedy decided to answer the first letter of the pledge of not attacking if they took the missiles from Cuba. Kennedy’s brother met with a Soviet Union official and they discussed what would happen -
END OF WAR
Khrushchev over the radio said that they would no longer keep bombs there, if the U.S. promised not to attack Cuba. -
Castro backs down
Castro gave his assent to the aspects of the agreement and left Cuba office.