Historical+Decision

= __ ﻿ Historical Decision (Wait it out) __ =

On October 14, 1962 a pilot of a U-2 photography plane flew over Cuba and had captured photos of Soviet Union missile bases located on Cuba. The next day PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY was told of the photos and the crisis, in result Kennedy formed EX-COMM. EX-COMM was comprised of Kennedy's 12 most trusted advisors formed together to decide what to do about that the crisis. After seven days of guarded and intense debate within EX-COMM, Kennedy concluded to... Impose a naval blockade around Cuba and not invade Cuba. The naval blockade was to not let any materials to enter or leave Cuba and not to invade Cuba or the Soviet Union. On October 22, Kennedy told the public about the Cuban Missile crisis, and his decision to put up a naval blockade around Cuba. Although once the news broke, tensions between the Soviet Union and the US started to grow even more. Kennedy demanded that spy planes be sent to gather information on Cuba in 2 hour intervals. On October 25, Kennedy decided to move the naval blockade back 50 miles and put America on DEFCON 2 for soviet threat. On October 26, EX-COMM received a letter from the leader of the SOVIET UNION, Nikita Khrushchev, Stating a proposal. His proposal was that he would remove all Soviet Missiles and military personal if the U.S. would promise not to invade Cuba. The proposal seemed legit, but on October 27, __a U.S. U-2 plane was shot down over Cuba fueling more tension__. EX-COMM then received another letter from Nikita Khrushchev demanding the removal of U.S. missiles in Turkey in exchange for Soviet missiles in Cuba. On October 28, tensions fell when Nikita Khrushchev announced that he would disband Soviet bases in Cuba and ship the missiles back to the Soviet Union and expressing his trust in the U.S. that they would not invade Cuba, Kennedy accepted this request. Two weeks after the agreement, __the Soviet Union had removed all of its missiles, equipment, and men from Cuba and moved them back to Russia__. __On November 20, 1962 the U.S. blockade on Cuba officially ended and U.S. ships when back to America, thus ending the Cuban Missile Crisis__. In result from the Cuban Missile Crisis the Moscow-Washington Hot-line was created, also known as the Red Telephone. The Red Telephone was a direct telephone line Between the President of the U.S and the Premier of the Soviet Union, the Red Telephone was created to let the Soviet Union and the U.S to have faster access to talk to each other and to help end future tensions. The 1950s and 1960s was the height of the cold war. But the Soviets started to decline in the 1980s. The cold war continued until 1991, when the Soviet Union, and most of Communism fell. Some of the Soviet Union was divided into other countries and Berlin was united once again. Alternate Decision (Invade Cuba)