Kennedy's reaction to the Cuban missile crisis was to?

Answer 1

Not to invade Cuba, leaving fidel kastro, a sworn enemy of the USA, at 90 miles south of the border.

Had not Gorbachev unwillingly pulverized comunism, fidel would be now knocking at the doors of the White House and telling Bush to beat it, because it was taking charge

Answer 2

Kennedy put together a panel of trustworthy men to keep him informed. He wanted to avoid the mistakes of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, which was a result of bad and deliberately fallacious information. The military personnel wanted to take military action and he considered it. But his brother, then Attorney General Robert Kennedy, urged him to wait and try to solve the problem through more subtle pressure upon Krushchev. So he gave Krushchev a time frame. This gave the president some time and this gave Krushchev a face-saving way to back out of the situation. Neither wanted nuclear war because of the principle of Mutually Assured Destruction. That is the theory that if one side used it on the other that the other side would retaliate and that would cause worldwide destruction. Krushchev wisely chose to withdraw. This cost him in his own country though, and he was removed from office shortly thereafter.

Answer 3

Kennedy set up a board for helping him make decisions to make sure he didn't make a nuclear war called, the board was called X-con. He sent the navy to blockade but was called a quarenten so it was not cause a war as well. They also made recon flights with U-2's and RF-8's. Kennedy started to talk to the Soviets to get the missiles out and stop a nuclear destruction of the Earth.

**ADD ON**

Yes their was a Military Build up, but it was nothing. The main deal we did was they would remove the missiles, if the US would remove missiles from Turkey and not Invade Cuba. We don't need to they are not a threat to us, the only problem are the people trying to get out of their.

Oh, My Info is from US AND WORLD HISTORY COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS. Some from the history Channel as well.

Also the SOVIET have subs out their with NUCLEAR torpedos aimed at are ships and were going to sink one of are ships

Answer 4

We were there, geared up and ready to load the c-130 to jump into Cuba. The Russians were running the blockade, Kennedy had a cruiser fir shots over the bows of the Russians ships to stop them, they didn't know we had two nuke subs standing by ready to "lock and load" to stop them.
Some intelligent Russian thought better and drew down. The missal bases were taken down with in days and shaped out to Russia.

We were all on alert.

Answer 5

naval blockade, heightened security (defcon level), nukes on alert.

Answer 6

do a barrel rol!