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What Really Happened . Blockade! Prevents further military shipments from USSR to Cuba Defensive military response Strategic Air Command placed at DEFCON 2 1/8 B-52s constantly airborne 183 bombers dispatched around the globe Nuclear missile silos opened
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What Really Happened • Blockade! • Prevents further military shipments from USSR to Cuba • Defensive military response • Strategic Air Command placed at DEFCON 2 • 1/8 B-52s constantly airborne • 183 bombers dispatched around the globe • Nuclear missile silos opened • 100,000 U.S. troops mobilized in Florida
Khrushchev and Kennedy become pen pals! • Khrushchev demands: • U.S. must promise NOT to invade Cuba • U.S. must remove missiles from Turkey • With a wink and nod, U.S. basically agrees • USSR agrees to dismantle and remove missiles
Poor Castro! • Khrushchev doesn’t consult Castro about negotiations with the US • Castro feels abandoned, vulnerable • Castro resists U.S.-Soviet agreement • Blockade stays in place for another month
Outcomes • Hotline • Easy, fast mode of communication between Kremlin and White House • Tone of Cold War changes • “If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. . . Our most common link is the fact that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. . .” – President Kennedy, 1963
Outcomes (continued) • US takes Jupiter missiles out of Turkey; USSR takes missiles out of Cuba • Castro is really mad!!! • People thought Khrushchev lost, because he had to take missiles out of Cuba, but nobody knew that missiles in Turkey were taken out by the US • US agrees to never invade Cuba again!