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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Blockade is an act of war
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didn’t have enough ships for a blockade
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Soviets would not know what we were planning
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it was surprise option
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Detailed explanation-1: -The aim of this “quarantine, ” as he called it, was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. He demanded the removal of the missiles already there and the destruction of the sites.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kennedy announced that he was ordering a naval “quarantine” of Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from transporting any more offensive weapons to the island and explained that the United States would not tolerate the existence of the missile sites currently in place.
Detailed explanation-3: -The surface quarantine line was established at 2PM GMT on October 24, 1962, as an arc 500 miles from Cape Maysi, Cuba. That range was chosen to be out of range of the Soviet IL-28 bombers based in Cuba.
Detailed explanation-4: -On October 22, 1962, United States President John F. Kennedy announced a “quarantine” of Cuba, in retaliation of the discovery of Soviet nuclear weapon facilities on the island a week earlier. This brought the conflict, known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to a diplomatic height.