Cuban Missile Crisis

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Cuban Missile Crisis

• By Sara Lane
• and
• Stephannie Degeorge
• f period April ?, 2008

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• Who Nikita Khrushchev, Fidea Castro, John
  Kennedy
• What Cuban Missile Crisis
• Where US, Cuba, Turkey and Russia
• When Oct. 15, 1962
• Why

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Summary
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Bay of Pigs

• On April 17, 1962 about 1,500 CIA trailed Cuban
  exiles landed at the Bay of Pigs in southern
  Cuba. Many blunders occurred.

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Speeches/ Documents

• John F Kennedy
• It shall be a policy of this nation to
  regard and nuclear missile launched from Cuba
  against any nation in the western hemisphere as
  an attack by the Soviet union on the US.

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Interesting Facts!

• Cuba was less than 90 miles away!

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Quiz

• 1. When did it happen?
• 2. Who was our present?
• 3. Who was the soviets leader?
• 4. Where did they put their missiles?
• 5. How did we find out about this?
• 6. About how far would the missiles have hit us?
• 7. Did we give up or did they give up?
• 8. Who was partnered with Cuba?
• 9. Why did they want to bomb us?
• 10.

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