The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- American's supported a corrupt regime under Fulgencio Batista until Cuban Revolution.
- Fidel Castro took over
- Alligned with the Soviets
- The Bay of Pigs
- 1962, nuclear weapons in Cuba
The Crisis
- The US had 3 options
- Diplomatic Solution
- A conventional attack
- A naval blockade
- 2 letters sent from Kruschev to Kennedy
- Brinkmanship ensues
- Russians pull out of Cuba in return for removed missiles in Turkey
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