1. The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

2. Castro and Khruschev showing closer ties

3. The Crisis
Soviets armed Cuba with nuclear missiles

4. U2 spy plane photographs sites

5. U.S. territory is vulnerable so JFK demanded
removal
Khrushchev warned it “could lead to nuclear
war”

6. How should JFK handle this crisis?
pursue diplomacy (talk with Cuba and S.U.)
blockade Cuba so missiles not fully assembled
have Air Force do an air strike to destroy sites
before operational

7. JFK placed a blockade on Cuba
JFK announces decision to blockade
Cuba to the public on T.V.
JFK placed a blockade on Cuba
warned Soviets of attack if missile fired
brink of nuclear war

8. Soviets show traditional arms in Havanna, Cuba and send 19 ships w/ materials to finish making missile sites operational

10. Soviet ships turned back at the last minute
Soviet ship Poltava on its way to Cuba (CIA photo)
Soviet ships turned back at the last minute

11. The Compromise Soviet missiles removed from Cuba
Members of ExComm and JFK planning a compromise
Soviet missiles removed from Cuba
U.S. promises not to invade Cuba
U.S. removed missiles from Italy and Turkey

12. “Hotline” b/t the S.U. and U.S. leaders
JFK signs Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963
“Hotline” b/t the S.U. and U.S. leaders
Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: no
testing of nuclear weapons aboveground
JFK foreign policy success