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**__ The Cuban Missle Crisis __** The Cuban Missle Crisis happened during October 1962. The Soviet Unoin placed missles in Cuba. The missles could travel 90 miles to Florida. Cuba thought that the U.S. was going to attack them. John F. Kennedy learned about the missles on October 16. JFK ordered a naval blockade of Cuba to stop further shipments of missles with the Sovit Union. The U.S. sent airplanes (like the one shown below) that showed missle launching places. The U.S. was going to invade Cuba on October 29th or October 30th, but they didn't because they knew it would mean a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Nikita Kruschev made a private agreement with John F. Kennedy to have him promise the U.S. would not attack Cuba. In exchange for not attcking Cuba, Nikita Khruschev removed the missles from Cuba. On October 28, the two leaders agreed and the missles were removed from Cuba. Many Americans didn't like the deal J.F.K. made with Nikita Khruschev which is why it was kept a secret. The two big players in this crisis were John F. Kennedy and Nikita Kruschev. If John F. Kennedy had attacked Cuba then Cuba probably would have been destroyed, and we would have gone into a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
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Essential questions __** 1.) What happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis? 2.) It happened in Cuba, but who were the big players in this conflict? 3.) How did President John F. Kennedy's cabinet advise him on this? 4.) How did he and Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev resolve this conflict? 5.) What could have been the outcome?  **__Works Cited__** Nathan, James. “Cuban Missle Crsis.” //World Book//. Auburn University, Montgomery, n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2009.
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__** Secondary Source **__ Unknown. “Cuban Missle Crisis.” //Info Trac Student edition//. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Nov. 2009.