Cuban Missile Crisis?

Question

Who was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 1

Yep, remember it well. I was watching the President JFK's speech that night on TV in the day-room at Lackland AFB. I was waiting to go to college class that night and we were not sure if we should go or not. He showed great courage during the time.

Answer 2

As I remember it: John F. Kennedy, the US President, Nikita Khrushchev, the Russian Soviet Leader and Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader. Russia placed Ballistic missiles on Cuba which could have been fired at the US. Kennedy literally warned of war if they were not removed, Khrushchev took it so close that it seemed, right up to the last minute that there would be an Atomic war, but then turned his ships around and withdrew the weapons from Cuba.

The Official version: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime, and in the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to install ballistic missiles in Cuba. When U.S. reconnaissance flights revealed the clandestine construction of missile launching sites, President Kennedy publicly denounced (Oct. 22, 1962) the Soviet actions. He imposed a naval blockade on Cuba and declared that any missile launched from Cuba would warrant a full-scale retaliatory attack by the United States against the Soviet Union. On Oct. 24, Russian ships carrying missiles to Cuba turned back, and when Khrushchev agreed (Oct. 28) to withdraw the missiles and dismantle the missile sites, the crisis ended as suddenly as it had begun. The United States ended its blockade on Nov. 20, and by the end of the year the missiles and bombers were removed from Cuba. The United States, in return, pledged not to invade Cuba, and subsequently secretly removed ballistic missiles it had placed in Turkey.

Answer 3

• Cuba Island, a mere 90 miles off the shores of Florida
Principal players involve:
• Cuban Premier Fidel Castro approval for building missile installations in Cuba, as a defense from an future attack by the US, since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961,
• Soviet Union Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, whom in 1962 begin to place intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba
• U.S. President John F. Kennedy in a televised address on October 22, announced the discovery of the installations and proclaimed that any nuclear missile attack from Cuba would be regarded as an attack by the Soviet Union and would be responded to accordingly. He also imposed a naval quarantine (blockade) on Cuba to prevent further Soviet shipments of offensive military weapons from arriving there.

For a complete list of persons and other information, check http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cpersons.htm
http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Flibrary.thinkquest.org%2F11046%2F
Information about the crisis: http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/cuba-62.htm