https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp The closest humans have been to self destruction. en-us 2019-11-13 14:59:54 UTC 2023-07-22 14:24:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w728-h425-c728x425/upload/68/b6/f5/untitled-design-323.jpg aidanthompson1 https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/410626454 Khrushchev wanted to help Cuba because he wanted a communist state close to the US. He also wanted to get US missile sites out of Turkey.

Leftist revolutionary leader Fidel Castro took power of Cuba, Castro aligned himself with the Soviet Union so Cuba started to be dependent on soviet military and economic aid.]]> 2019-11-13 15:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/410626454 aidanthompson1 https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/410627028 OCTOBER 22 1962 - In an 18 minute television speech JFK reveals that there is unmistakable evidence of a missile threat.

He also announces that the US will present ships carrying weapons from getting to Cuba.

]]> 2019-11-13 15:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/410627028 aidanthompson1 https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/410627165 Khrushchev agrees to remove soviet missiles from Cuba as long as the US agrees to respect Cuba's territorial sovereignty.

Relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union were shaky at best because Castro accused the Russians of backing down from the Americans and abandoning the Cuban revolution. European allies of the US were angered as they were essentially left in the dark about decisions that could have triggered an atomic war.]]> 2019-11-13 15:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/410627165 aidanthompson1 https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/411935860 OCTOBER 24 1962 -  Khrushchev sends a letter to JFK accusing him of threatening the Soviet Union “You are no longer appealing to reason, but wish to intimidate us,” he wrote]]> 2019-11-15 17:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/411935860 aidanthompson1 https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/411936154 OCTOBER 27 1962 - Another U-2 pilot was shot down and killed over Cuba and Assistant Secretary of Defense says that they have fired the first shot and war appeared imminent.

However JFK concluded that Khrushchev had not given the order to shoot down the pilot this made both of the leaders realize that the situation was spiraling dangerously out of control.]]> 2019-11-15 17:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/411936154 aidanthompson1 https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/411942580 2019-11-15 17:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/411942580 aidanthompson1 https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/411947143 2019-11-15 17:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/411947143 aidanthompson1 https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/414031555 2019-11-20 14:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/414031555 aidanthompson1 https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/414034305 There was at least a beneficial outcome to the Cuban missile criss as both nations decided to take steps with regards to the control of nuclear weapons as they had been on the brink of nuclear warfare and both understood that that couldn't happen again.

In 1968 the US and Soviet Union signed an agreement to stop aboveground testing of nuclear weapons.]]> 2019-11-20 14:58:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/414034305 aidanthompson1 https://padlet.com/aidanthompson1/vwmoxplo3mkp/wish/414039222 The superpowers began one of the biggest Cold War confrontations after an American spy plane made it's way over Cuba and photographed medium range ballistic missiles being assembled for installation.

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