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JFK learns of Cuban missiles
JFK learns of Cuban Missiles and also learns the Soviet Union is giving the Cubans the missiles. JFK started to get will as many people as he can to come up with a plan to solve the crisis in Cuba without having the Cubans and Soviets Fire the nuclear missiles leading to World War lll. -
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13 days
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US moves its military
The military started to prepare for war by moving to the south. The U-2 flights were showing many missiles in Cuba facing towards the US getting ready to launch. The US at this time was very close to coming to war with the Soviets and Cuba. -
JFK meets with the Soviet foreign minister
The day that Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister, and JFK meet. The minister convinces JFK they would not use them unless they had a reason to use them against the United States. Kennedy says that if they were to be used they would start another world war. The US had military down in the south ready for war. Kennedy made it clear there would be a price to pay if the missiles were offensive and not just a defense. -
Debate conference
JFK travels around the country to warm people about the crisis. He gets many different opinions about what to do and how to come about a plan of what to do about the Cuban missile crisis. -
JFK and his advisors decide on quarantine
JFK is planning to tell with the help of his advisors his plan to tell the country his plan of how he would handle the Cuban Missile crisis. -
JFK meets with his general of tactical air command
The president meets with General Walter Sweeney of the Tactical Air Command. They think of a plan to talk about creating and setting up air strike that could be set up with missiles but it wouldn't get rid of all of the Cuban missile problem. -
JFK approves quarantine of Cuba and the U.N. is informed by the crisis
JFK tells the three former presidents on the situation in Cuba, and the British Prime Minister. He has help with creating the Executive Committee of the National Security Council. JFK also informs the cabinet and congressional leaders on the crisis. -
Russia replies to JFK
Khrushchev Replies to Kennedy's request of stopping Russian ships. -
JFK asks again
The U.N. requests a cooling time and Kennedy denies it because he does not want to leave the missiles in Cuba operational. JFK does not want to accidentally fall into a trap of having the Cubans set off missiles. -
Missile sites are constructed and solutions are offered
The USSR asks Khrushchev to attack the U.S. if Cuba is attacked. Khrushchev makes a deal with Kennedy that helps the problem of the blockade and missiles. -
US receives another solution letter
Kennedy gets another letter with terms that ask the U.S. to remove their missiles from turkey. A spy plane is shot down by the USSR and the pilot is killed. Kennedy secretly meets with Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and they reach a secret agreement of terms that will be followed for the crisis. -
U-2 plane went down
the u-2 plane goes down controversy starts. -
the last day of the Cuban missile crisis
the Soviet Union agrees to the terms and remove its missiles while the U.S. removes its blockade. The last day that ends a very bad time that could have broken out into an all out nuclear war.
