The Cuban Missile Crisis by Trevor Hutton https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8 By: Trevor Hutton en-us 2021-05-20 01:14:29 UTC 2025-05-07 20:41:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Start of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 1477961 https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1541935324 In October 14, 1962, an American U-2 spy plane photographed nuclear missile sites on the island of Cuba being built by the Soviet Union.
(Council on Foreign Relations. (n.d.). TWE Remembers: Learning More About the Cuban Missile Crisis. Council on Foreign Relations. https://www.cfr.org/blog/twe-remembers-learning-more-about-cuban-missile-crisis. )]]> 2021-05-20 01:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1541935324 1477961 https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1541944050 On October 15, 1962 The CIA found in the pictures taken from the spy plane that the Soviet Union was building missile sites on Cuba facing the United States.
(Gssr. (2019, July 18). Embassy Moscow: A Diplomatic Perspective of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Georgetown Security Studies Review. https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2013/12/10/embassy-moscow-a-diplomatic-perspective-of-the-cuban-missile-crisis/. )]]> 2021-05-20 01:26:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1541944050 The Presidential Response 1477961 https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1541981723 On October 16, 1962 President John F Kennedy meets with a team of people that are called Ex-comm to discuss how they should respond to the missile threat. Present JFK choose not to attack and instead implement a quarantine to buy time to negotiate with the Soviet Union. ]]> 2021-05-20 01:38:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1541981723 Informing the american people and the soviet union of the known threat. 1477961 https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1542009744 On October 22, 1962 JFK Goes on national TV and tells the american people that there are Soviet Union missiles on the island of Cuba. AT the same time JFK was on TV alerting the American people people he sent a note to Khrushchev the note read, “the one thing that has most concerned me has been the possibility that your government would not correctly understand the will and determination of the United States in any given situation, since I have not assumed that you or any other sane man would, in this nuclear age, deliberately plunge the world into war which it is crystal clear no country could win and which could only result in catastrophic consequences to the whole world, including the aggressor.”
Quote-(Wikimedia Foundation. (2021, January 19). October 1967. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1967.)
Video- (Jfk Cuban Missile Crisis Speech (10/22/1962). (2011). YouTube. https://youtu.be/WYVPx3x3oCg.)]]> 2021-05-20 01:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1542009744 Khrushchev response 1477961 https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1542073566 On October 23, 1962 The Soviet Union leader sent a message to the president of the United States. The letter said they will remove the missile sites but they advised the US President they only did this for defense and wold not launch  an attack on the United States.  The president didn't believe that and kept a close eye to make sure they would remove the sites.  ]]> 2021-05-20 02:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1542073566 The Cuban leader wants war. 1477961 https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1542093291 October 24-26, 1962 Castro sends a letter to Khrushchev and when he receives this message he sends it to president JFK.  Khrushchev does this because he does not want to start a war with the US.  Now JFK is working with Khrushchev to try and end the conflict and make the Cuban leader Castro stop the threats and take down the missile stations.
(West, D. (2018, October 9). The Cuban Missile Crisis: On the Brink of Nuclear War. Owlcation. https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Cuban-Missile-Crisis-On-the-Brink-of-Nuclear-War. )]]> 2021-05-20 02:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1542093291 The deal that Soviet Union and United States made to end the crisis. 1477961 https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1542121190 October 27, 1962 A Cuban missile system shoots down a American spy plane.  Then the president got in touch with Khrushchev to end this.  They had to stop the Cuban government from this because they where in control. The Soviet Union agreed to move the missiles out of Cuba as long as America will take there missiles out of Turkey.  They both agree on this deal because it will make both of there country safer. ]]> 2021-05-20 02:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1542121190 The end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 1477961 https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1542147084 October 28, 1962 Khrushchev sends a letter to President JFK that says The Soviet missiles in Cuba will be dismantled and removed from Cuba. After JFK said, “the resolution of the crisis owed to the president’s commitment to negotiate and find common ground in a dangerous nuclear world.”]]> 2021-05-20 02:40:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1477961/jguhr3uevbp14zw8/wish/1542147084