THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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removed its warheads from Italy and Turkey
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recognized Soviet territorial claims in Eastern Europe
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promised to never invade Cuba again
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announced an end to its embargo against Cuba
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Detailed explanation-1: -But the leaders of both superpowers recognized the devastating possibility of a nuclear war and publicly agreed to a deal in which the Soviets would dismantle the weapon sites in exchange for a pledge from the United States not to invade Cuba.
Detailed explanation-2: -Finally, on April 17, 1961, the CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike: a full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1, 400 American-trained Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over. However, the invasion was doomed from the start.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the peak of the crisis on Oct. 27, 1962, Kennedy agreed to “give assurances against an invasion of Cuba” and to call off the U.S. naval quarantine in return for Khrushchev’s agreement to remove the missiles under U.N.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Cuban missile crisis showed that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were ready to use nuclear weapons for fear of the other’s retaliation (and thus of mutual atomic annihilation). The two superpowers soon signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned aboveground nuclear weapons testing.