Download The Cuban Missile Crisis

By: Lacey Dawson
Jasmine Chapman
• It all started on October 14th 1962 when The Soviet Union
threatened missiles on Cuba only 90 miles from the U.S. shore.
• A U.S. spy plane flying over Cuba spotted Soviet missile sites.
• After the pictures where taken president John F. Kennedy was
informed and immediately took action.
• Many scientists believed a nuclear war would end life on Earth.
• October 22, 1962, leaders of the U.S. and Soviet union
engaged in a tense 13-day political/military stand-off over
nuclear armed missiles.
• President Kennedy imposed a naval blockade of armaments on
Cuba. Any vessels headed to Cuba would have to be searched
by the U.S. navy.
• Nikita Khrushchev offered to remove the missiles if the U.S
promised not to invade Cuba, Kennedy also secretly agreed to
remove U.S missiles from Turkey.
• The Cuban missile crisis was the closest the U.S ever got to a
nuclear war.